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Gindler Barn Project
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TourPrior to the Gindler Barn Project, there will be a tour of historic barns and other buildings in the area by historical archaeologist Annie Rieken on Sunday, July 6. The price for the tour is $40, and includes transportation and dinner. You must register in advance to take this tour. The tour will depart from Willoughby Farm at noon and end with a dinner at the Wartburg Inn in Waterloo, Illinois. The tour itinerary includes 10 sites in Maeystown and Waterloo, including stops at Zeitinger's Mill, the Corner George Inn, the Bundy Barn, the Steinmann Barn and the Henke-Buck Homestead, also known as Emma's Farm. Annie Rieken is the primary archaeologist of Emma's Farm, an 1840s farmstead that is to become the property of the Smithsonian Institution. According to an obituary appearing in the New York Times, "Emma Buck, who ran a pre-Civil War family farm in Illinois that remained virtually unchanged into the 21st century, died on June 5, 2004, on the sleigh bed with handmade ticking she had slept in for 98 years, in the log cabin built by her great-uncle, a German immigrant, in 1849. She was 100 or 101, said Annie Rieken. ... The 70-acre farm, a sort of rural Smithsonian, was named one of the state's 10 most endangered sites in 1998 by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois. Miss Buck, who had pulled the last of her own teeth some years ago, lived there without running water, drawing her water from a well. Until two days before she died, she walked to the outhouse, one of many structures on the farm. It also has a blacksmith's shop, a smokehouse, a butchering shed, a threshing barn and a rare outdoor bake oven. Miss Buck sharpened scythes on a foot-operated grinding wheel well into her 90's. Speaking with a thick German accent, the slightly persnickety Miss Buck always wore a skirt as she worked." We will visit several buildings in the historic village of Maeystown, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, one of only a few villages in the State of Illinois to be so honored. The population estimate for July 1, 1998 was 127, an increase of 11 since 1990. For more information about Maeystown, visit their website at www.maeystown.com.  This village, where three streams descend the bluff, was founded by Jacob Maeys in 1852. The original settlers were German members of the Forty-Eighter Movement. The village is unique in manner with structures integrated into the landscape. The original stone church held services intermittently in German until 1943. Sixty significant buildings still exist, including Maeys' log house, the original church, the stone bridge, Zeitinger's Mill, and various outbuildings, barns, and smokehouses made of limestone, brick, and wood. These buildings built in the mid to late 1800s form this quaint little village. Maeystown was designated as a historic district in 1978. |
 
Steinmann Barn.
Corner George Inn: Across the street from Zeitinger's Mill and built circa 1883.
Zeitinger's Stone Mill: Built prior to the Civil War by
German craftsmen and is now home to the Maeystown Preservation Society.
Built prior to the Civil War, the Bundy Barn was used by local Union soldiers as sleeping quarters prior to mustering out of county.
Bundy Barn.
Owner Mark Bundy's Great-great-grandfather was Jacob Maeys, and this barn was the original homestead.
 St. John UCC Church: Oldest continuous use log church in-situ. We will not be touring this but just driving by. |
Henke-Buck Homestead: Original barn, bake oven and well predates 1838; the current log cabin was built ca. 1848; out buildings and other structures were not altered after 1923. | |
To register, download the Registration Form in PDF format or register online. Please fax it to the Timber Framers Guild at 888-453-0879 or mail it to: Timber Framers Guild, P. O. Box 60, Becket, MA 01223. For general registration questions, please call Susan Norlander at 603-835-2577 or email her .
Cancellation Policy: Notification of cancellation should be received by us no later than ???.
For project questions, email or call 603-835-2077 or or call 540-937-3941. For payment or refund, please call Sue Warden at 413-623-9926 or email .
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