Long Hollow Ranch Address: Holmes Road, Terrebonne, OR. Year Built: 1905 Architect: Unknown Builder:  Unknown Landmark Status: Local Landmark As the main headquarters for the Black Butte Land & Livestock Cattle Company (BBL & LC Co.), Long Hollow Ranch plays an important part in the history of northern Deschutes County. Named after Long Hollow Canyon where the ranch is located, the ranch was one of five ranches owned and operated by the BBL & LC Company. At the height of their operations, the company owned about 2200 head of cattle and approximately 10,000 sheep, making the business one of the largest ranching operations in all of Central Oregon. As the headquarters for the operation, Long Hollow was the location where each summer the sheep were sheared, where machinery was repaired and maintained, and where financial business was conducted. The ranch had a well-equipped blacksmith shop for shoeing horses and the large barn and outdoor pens held hogs for home use and the market. As a self-supporting operation, Long Hollow had a number of acres under cultivation, raising mainly rye, and had a small fruit orchard. As one of the only homesteads in northern Deschutes County, Long Hollow also operated as a stopping point for travelers between Prineville, Sisters and the Willamette Valley. In 1917 the entire holdings of BBL & LC Co. was sold for $90,000. It included 900 acres near Black Butte, 160 acres in Lake County, and 150 acres in Kalamath County, as well as all the buildings and machinery, 3000 head of sheep, and 66 horses and mules. The company was bought out by Squaw Creek Irrigation Company, who bought 2,800 of land (reported a year later by the Bend Bulletin). They planned to sell 80-acre tracts to future homesteaders along with irrigation rights. As part of the sale, Arnold S. Holmes, manager of the ranch since 1911, keep 500 acres of BBL & LC Co. land along with the Long Hollow ranch. By 1918, Holmes had turned Long Hollow into a successful farming and ranching operation. Reports indicate that Long Hollow ranch had one of the most productive soils in the county, boasting that for over 14 years the property yielded not less than 3 tons of alfalfa to an acre. A.S. Holmes died on the ranch in 1932 after the result of accidentally inhaling dust from strychnine, which he was preparing for rabbit poison. Holmes was alone at the ranch and found on his porch. His family continued the operation and when Holmes son, Priday sold the ranch in 1960, Long Hollow encompassed 3,165 acres. The main house, built circa 1905, is a two-story wood frame building of an American Foursquare design. The home is capped with hip roof which rises to a square flat roof creating a "widow’s walk". Iron cresting most likely once outlined its edges. As per historical photos the building originally had clapboard or drop ship lap siding. The historic siding has now been covered with asbestos shingles. All windows are one-over-one double hung with lamb’s tongue detailed sashes. The windows are grouped in pairs and individually. An open porch, or verandah extends around three sides of the home on the west, east and south sides. The porch is supported by square posts (chamfered on each corner) spaced approximately six feet apart. The house has two brick chimneys with corbeled caps. Five exterior doors, three with transom lights, allow access to the interior. The main entrance is believed to be on the south façade, which has direct access to a formal interior hallway and stairs, which lead to the second floor. Several other buildings are located on the site including an equipment shed, a barn, a bunk house (the original home according to historical accounts), a commissary (now converted to storage and additional living space) and a double-wide mobile home.

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