The Lindahl corn crib

Johannes Lindahl was born in Hadeland in 1808.  He migrated to Coon Valley, Wisconsin in 1857 where he built a farm for himself and his wife, Agnete. The Lindahl family owned and operated the farm for over 100 years, including milk production and cultivation of tobacco plants.

The “kornkrybba” was used to store away corn until 1955. "Kornkrybba" is the Norwegian-American word for the "corn crib"; a house for storing corn cobs.

The building is a little one-room log house. The “kornkrybba” was a common building on a Norwegian farm in America. It is, however, most unusual when compared to building traditions in the old country. S. Scott Lee took over the buildings after the Lindahl family and wished to give the “kornkrybba” to the Emigration Museum. The house was dismantled in the US with the help of Norskedalen, The Norwegian Valley Nature Center in Coon Valley, sent by truck to Decorah, shipped in a container over the Atlantic Ocean, and rebuilt by the museum in 1988.