Ida Mighell: Barn

Ida Mighell: Barn

S. W. Township

This is the cement barn on the Ida Mighell farm. The Migell homestead was located on 43W610 Jericho Road. Ida had seen a barn she liked in Wisconsin and hired a Chicago architect to design one like it. Don Wolf and Groff Frantz wheeled wheelbarrows of cement to b dumped into the forms (must have been in the 1930s). When it was all done, it was discovered that the doors were too small to get the hay racks inside.

Source: "Sin-Qua-Sip: A History of Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Illinois." by Patsy Mighell Paxton

Apr. 1984

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