D-314

Owners: Daniel R. and Gertrude McDonald
1940 Census: Daniel R. McDonald, age 39, poultry specialist - farming
                         Gertrude McDonald, age 31, straw (?) operator - millinery
Location: 697605   4284028
Acreage: 40.00
Contract price: $12,000
Property condemned on April 9, 1941
Condemnation price: $860
Today: nearly intact basement of house, open cistern near house, collapsed cistern near barn, floor of brooder house, several foundation stones of nearly all structures pictured, trash in several ravines.

McDonald sold chickens to the Golden Fried Chicken Loaf Restaurant located on 5867 Delmar in St. Louis.  The brooder house had a capacity of 20,000 chickens.

Outbuildings
House
Brooder house




Outbuildings