Both Schweitzer and standard barns in the region are frequently found with a practical large earthen bank at its rear, which allowed wagons carrying sheaves of grain or loads of hay to bridge the ...
The barn on the former Carr farm is rare, even more so than Fred Woller knew when he set about restoring it. Not only is it old — built 12 years before the start of the American Civil War — but it is ...
An 1850s threshing barn could soon become Will County’s fourth historic landmark in Homer Township. The Austin-Welter barn was a prominent feature on a farm at 147th Street and Bell Road that was ...