The Spokesrider

The current barn seems to have been an old post-and-beam structure. At least one beam is showing where the wall is tumbling down. The arrangement of doors is roughly the same as on the main barn in the 1891 portrait, but the building seems to have been enlarged since then.

The first place I was looking for was the homestead site of William A. Bishop, who had served in the Black Hawk war militia in 1832.