Floor plans of the Klanderman house and barn as they were in 1937.
The barn floor was like the long central nave of a basilica, and the hay mow and livestock areas were like the side aisles. The shed, like the 18' extension, was probably added to the barn.
The land was originally owned by Augustus Griswold, who was a lumberman in Ottawa Centre, located on the Grand River west of Eastmanville. On April 14, 1868 he sold it to Hermanus Diepenhorst and Anne Vanden Bosch, who sold it to Jacobus Klanderman only nine days later. On February 28, 1882, he received a patent certtificate on his land from the state. The north half, on the hill, was good clay loam, though it contained glacial rocks, but the south half, in the marsh, was too wet to be good farmland.