Structures like this silo disappear regularly. Not many people have use for them anymore. The cupola on the roof has withstood the prairie storms and survived in good shape. In the background to the left sets another old time standby, a boxcar. Old railroad boxcars found new life in many farm yards. I've never heard how much the railroad charged for them, but I presume they came pretty reasonably priced.
Today's farms look completely different from this one. Sterile looking metal buildings are the construction of choice. I'm sure that's the efficient way to build. The old hip-roofed barns disappear. Keeping them shingled is prohibitive. Besides, farm tractors can't be driven through the small doors.
Architecture suffers to make way for the modern. Beautiful old churches embellished with their bricks, murals, and color stain glass stood maintained for years as a matter of pride in these small communities. New churches followed the way of the farmstead where many of them stand as a metal building with maybe a nice facade on them.
Not everyone notices things like this or cares about them. Younger eyes see them as being modern.
Today's farms look completely different from this one. Sterile looking metal buildings are the construction of choice. I'm sure that's the efficient way to build. The old hip-roofed barns disappear. Keeping them shingled is prohibitive. Besides, farm tractors can't be driven through the small doors.
Architecture suffers to make way for the modern. Beautiful old churches embellished with their bricks, murals, and color stain glass stood maintained for years as a matter of pride in these small communities. New churches followed the way of the farmstead where many of them stand as a metal building with maybe a nice facade on them.
Not everyone notices things like this or cares about them. Younger eyes see them as being modern.
