Former Lincolnville elevator a work of art
By ROWENA PLETT
Staff writer
Elsie Macklin of Hutchinson is a desk clerk at Hutchinson Police Department. She has a sideline business in photographic art. It is known as Farmer's Tapestry.
Macklin has sold her artwork at Art in the Park in Marion and more recently at the Arts and Crafts Fair in Hillsboro.
She grew up on a Marion County farm which was displaced by the Marion Reservoir.
For several years, her father, Rudy Nickel, made sausage and sold it to grocery stores in the small towns of northern Marion County.
Macklin has an interest in double-exposure photography. In 1989, she doubled a snapshot of the former grain elevator at Lincolnville with a greening wheat field. She said it is one of her best double-exposures.
According to historical records, the elevator was built in 1906 or 1907 on the site where the original elevator burned.
In 1956, a large concrete silo-type elevator was built. The old elevator became a feed mill and was in operation until the end of the millenium.
The building is owned by Agri-Producers, Inc.
