The Wilson Barn (Livonia, Michigan)

 barn, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places

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The Wilson Barn was built in 1888 to house the Ira Wilson & Sons Dairy Company. It was destroyed in a fire in 1918 and rebuilt one year later on the original foundation. It is a large barn with clapboard siding, approximately 30-feet by 80-feet. There are three separate levels with a sloping entrance.
The stalls on the ground level were remodeled in 1945 so that Percheron horses could be stabled here. At attached silo, 15-feet diameter and 45-feet high, is the largest ever to be constructed in Livonia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973.
There is a small house which is on the south end of the site, originally built in 1885. It was restored to the era of the 1940s.