Welling-Everly Horse Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Welling-Everly Horse Barn is a historic horse barn located west of U.S. Route 136 and northwest of Adair in rural McDonough County, Illinois.”
Wikipedia article Welling-Everly Horse Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for McDonough County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off US 136, Adair, 61411
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. building
Township. New Salem township
Architectural style. Stick style
National Register reference number. 85001911 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adair, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Adair	$1,000	Power poles were downed near Adair.
May 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Adair	-	Pictures and video from social media indicated a brief landspout tornado in open fields. No damage has been reported. Times and location estimated.
May 2024	Hail	Adair	-	Quarter to ping pong size hail covering the ground in a narrow swath.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Adair	-	Several large tree limbs reported blown down.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Adair	-	Media relayed a report of a photo of a large tree broken off 3 feet above the ground. The time was estimated from radar data.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Adair	-	Law enforcement reported that water was 6 inches deep and flowing over a road. It was impacting travel.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Adair	-	Law enforcement reported that North 700th Road between East 200th and East 210th was washed out and closed.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Adair	-	Time was estimated on the report of 4 power poles from the Amren company.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Adair	-	The Emergency Manager reported power poles and lines down in the Adair area. Time and location of the event are estimated.
April 2014	Hail	Adair	-	A trained spotter reported ping pong to golf ball sized hail littering the ground on the northwest wide of Adair. Hail on the ground was of a similar size 4 minutes after the storm had passed.
April 2014	Hail	Adair	-	Ping pong ball sized hail damaged some exposed vehicles in Adair Illinois around 145 AM. The time of the event was estimated and the report was received via E-spotter.
November 2013	Hail	Adair	-	Pea to nickel sized hail fell.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Adair	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs in Adair, IL around 630 pm June 4.
June 2009	Hail	Adair	-	Quarter-sized hail fell in Adair, IL around 540 pm June 1.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Adair	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph in Adair, IL around 540 pm June 1.
May 2008	Hail	Adair	-	A spotter reported many hail stones ranging in size from pea to quarter.
September 2006	Heavy Rain	Adair	-	A spotter reported a foot of nearly stationary water on U.S. 136. This location in town is well known for poor drainage during heavy rainfall.
March 2005	Hail	Adair	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Adair	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonough County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
McDonough County Courthouse	7.1 miles	1972
William S. Bailey House	7.3 miles	2012
Lamoine Hotel	7.3 miles	2010
Macomb Courthouse Square historic District	7.4 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001911 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McDonough County	All 8 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.