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The house was built by Iver Takle, a second generation immigrant from Norway. The following information is written about Kjell Takle, Iver’s uncle, in genealogical records: “b. 1832, traveled to America. He had is own farm there for a time, but his brother Lars got the farm, Kjel [sic!] lost his hand in a machine. Died unmarried”. Lars Takle had a son: Ivar Takle.
The house was built in proximity to Highland, Iowa, in 1902. Until 1916, Gunvald and Mari Tollefsrud lived on the farm to which the house belonged. Then the Bjorgo family took over; first Elias Bjorgo and thereafter his son Lloyd. The farmhouse was in operation as a dwelling on the Bjorgo farm until 1977.
The building
The house is a frame house and consists of a basement, two floors, and a loft.
In the US, it stood on a two meter high basement wall made of limestone.
It was donated to the Norwegian Emigrant Museum, dismantled in 2000, and sent to Norway in 2004.
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