Patrick Record retrieves a piece of cedar from Susan Sloyka's barn Friday morning. Record has spent over a month meticulously restoring the cedar shake roof of the old grain silo on Sloyka's historic property just south of the Spokane River on Greensferry Road. The land was first homesteaded by the Whitaker family in the early 1900s.
April 21, 2024
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Haven of history
Century-old grain silo undergoes restoration on homesteader property
A 29-foot-tall cement grain silo towers over a Greensferry Road property just south of the Spokane River on the Coeur d'Alene side of the Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls border. A curious hawk circles above, keeping a watchful eye on Patrick Record as he finalizes a restoration project to replace the cedar shakes on the nearly 100-year-old silo. Barn swallows playfully soar from birdhouse to pole top while a sweet-tempered Great Pyrenees rolls about in the grass. A nearby rooster crows. Leaves and branches cast shadows on the lawn in the peaceful Friday morning sunshine.