This appears to be my Grandpa Spohn’s farm / barn. He built it when my mother was a baby and she was born in 1924. It is located on Schmidt Road across from the McGilvery ( sp?) Lake Road. There seems to be an addition added to the house, on the back side. There is a stone building that was their chicken coop. The building to the right of the barn housed all the farm implements but was once the horse barn. The other building next to the driveway, before you get to the house was a trainer and also truck garage. Is there anyway to verify this? I’m pretty sure this is my grandpa’s barn, though.

My wife and I lived in the house when we first got married 1981. I milked cows in that barn. The shed a long side the driveway was a corn crib the chicken coop was still standing witch is stone. The shed by the road was a machinery storage. The house was added on to in The back to have 2 bedrooms. The stairway going up stairs was so small I had to turn sideways and crawl up them on my knees

I know the Koontz name from listening to my mom and aunts growing up. When my mom was growing up the old machinery she’d was the work horse barn and probably the field implements. The hay wagon was always outside somewhere. I used to have nightmares about that stairway closing in on me and trapping me halfway. Mom and her sister slept up there growing up. It had to have been freezing during the winter with only the doorway to access heat from the woodstove in the kitchen. There was also a woodstove in the living room. The shed you called the corn crib was always referred to as the grainery but there were also two grain cribs in the barn—one in the hay mow area and one near the root cellar behind the manger/cow stanchion area. I’m happy someone was able to farm there, at least for awhile. Great memories growing up.