Warne / Kraft / Kuhn family history

Samuel Warne was one of eleven children of John and Sarah Warne, pioneer settlers of the Big Woods. Samuel built the house and barn in 1893. Mr. Warne owned 304 acres on the north side of Batavia Road including all of the land on which the Village of Weston stood in 1967.

The house was owned for awhile by the Kraft family and in 1967 was being rented to Robert D. Kuhn. The Kuhn family moved to West Chicago.

The house was occupied in 1969 for offices of the National Accelerator Laboratory. The historic 1889 James McKee home from Site 57 on Eola Road was moved and attached to this home in 1971 to convert the buildings for visitor housing.

The Kuhn Barn was restored in April 1970 and converted from a dairy barn to a meeting hall for the first Users Meeting. It is today, as in the past, the center for many community social activities.

DEVELOPMENT OF "ASPEN-EAST" BEGINS

	Moving day

Dick Utt and the NAL Construction group took advantage of the minimum day-off traffic Saturday, April 25, 1971 to move the house (shown in the photo below) from the former Hadley Farm on Eola Road to the expanding complex on the former Kuhn Farm, at the corner of Sauk Boulevard and Batavia Road in the NAL Village.

Known informally as "Aspen-East," the facilities are being prepared to help accommodate the NAL Summer Study June 22 to July 24th. The study will be attended by approximately 40 high energy physicists from universities and laboratories throughout the United States, Canada and Switzerland, as well as by NAL physicists.

The Hadley house will be joined by a 26-foot corridor to the Kuhn house, already on the corner location. Directly behind the houses is the newly remodeled meeting hall, formerly the Kuhn Farm barn.

The move was done by the Belding Engineering Company of West Chicago which, according to Utt, has handled the majority of the more than 40 moving projects on the NAL site in the last two years. The Aspen-East facility will be in use for some time, as more and more scientists come from all over the world to participate in the NAL program.

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Farm families