Family lore has it that the Lacey's first lived in a dugout carved into the side of a hill until a proper house could be built.  The original frame home, which is still occupied, is situated atop a hill that may well have also housed the dugout.  There is also a newer home on the property as well.  It's a beautiful farm yard, with a lovely vista of the surrounding countryside, particularly to the West and South.  It's easy to imagine why Sylvia Lacey Barber grew up loving these Western Iowa hills, and missed them so passionately after she and her husband Charles moved to the flat lands of South Dakota.

 

Tree growth makes it difficult to get a good picture of the house and farm yard today, but the Webmaster has photographs and video's not shown here, should the reader like to see more. 

 

County records verify the original house to be old, of frame construction, six rooms / three bedrooms;  we believe the West end of the house to be an addition which was built later.   A diagram of the floor plan on file with the County is shown,above right. 

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