The Josias L. and Elizabeth A. Minor Farmstead District is an agricultural historic district located northwest of Ely, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. At the time of its nomination it consisted of five resources, which included four contributing buildings and one non-contributing structure. The historic buildings include a 1+1⁄2-story, T-plan, half-timbered house (1856); gabled barn #1 (c. 1855); gabled barn #2 (1850s-1860s, with an addition from the 1860s-1870s); and the summer kitchen (1850s). The corncrib (1910s or 1920s) is the historic structure. Family lore says that Josias Minor settled here in 1846, but an 1878 biography of him gives September 1855 as the settlement date, which is used here for dating the buildings.