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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
Manske and his family developed and expanded the farm in three main stages. The first stage, completed in the 1860s and 1870s, included the original I-house, horse barn, and smokehouse. In the 1890s, the family added a granary, corncrib, cow barn, and other buildings to the farm, representing shifts in the farm's crops and livestock.
The Buckles Round Barn, located in Logan County near Mount Pulaski, was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the Round Barn MPS, on February 10, 1983. Its roof was damaged after a 1927 tornado and remained damaged until a $30,000 repair and restoration was undertaken in 1982. This round barn was built in 1917. [4]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in McLean County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 34,962. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Waterloo. [2] Monroe County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located in the southern portion of Illinois known historically as "Little Egypt".
The community is generally considered to comprise the platted towns of Monroe City (1856), Woodville (1857), and the area immediately adjacent to those towns. The core community is located in a valley, or colloquial "hollow," commonly known as the Monroe City Hollow. The central natural feature of the Hollow is the all-season Monroe City Creek. [2]
The James Bruce Round Barn is one of 31 round barns found in a four county area that includes Winnebago County, Stephenson County in Illinois, and Rock and Green Counties in Wisconsin. Twenty one of those barns are within Stephenson County. [2] The Bruce Round Barn was constructed in 1914 for James Bruce by Jeremiah Shaffer and the Haas ...
Maeystown is located southwest of the center of Monroe County at (38.225552, -90.233486 It is 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Waterloo, the county seat.It sits in the valley of Maeystown Creek, which flows into the floodplain of the Mississippi River 2 miles (3 km) to the southwest.