Fabyan Windmill

Fabyan Windmill
Fabyan Windmill in June 2008
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Origin
Mill nameOld Holland Mill
Old Dutch Mill
Dutch Windmill
Dutch Mill
Mill locationGeneva Township, Kane County, Illinois
Coordinates41°52′17″N 88°18′21″W / 41.87139°N 88.30583°W / 41.87139; -88.30583
Operator(s)Friedrich Brockmann (1875—1887)
Louis Frederick Blackhaus (1875—1877)
Herman Volberduig (1877—1885)
Fred Runge (1887—1914)
Colonel George Fabyan (1914—1939)
Kane County Forest Preserve (1939—present)
Year builtBetween 1848 - 1880 (estimated)
Dutch Mill
Nearest cityBatavia, Illinois
Arealess than one acre
Builtc. 1860
Architectural styleDutch Smock Mill
NRHP reference No.79000843[1]
Added to NRHPJune 4, 1979

The Fabyan Windmill is an authentic, working Dutch windmill dating from the 1850s located in Geneva, Kane County, Illinois, just north of Batavia, Illinois, off Illinois Route 25.[2] The five-story wooden smock mill with a stage, which stands 68 feet (21 m) tall, sits upon the onetime estate of Colonel George Fabyan, but is now part of the Kane County Forest Preserve District.

In 1979, the windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Dutch Mill.[1] The following year, the windmill was selected to be on a U.S. postage stamp, as part of a series of five windmills in a stamp booklet called "Windmills USA."[3][4] It originally operated as a custom grinding mill.[3]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Location taken from National Register of Historic Places: NRIS 79000843 (4 June 1979).
  3. ^ a b "Fabyan Windmill". Forest Preserve District of Kane County. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Fabyan Windmill" (PDF). Kane County Forest Preserve District. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2015.