Stuhr Museum's 1893 Farmstead, including the Cleary Farmhouse, Brasee Family Summer Kitchen and the Graham-Pickett Family, Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. Red Barn, rural Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, and rural schoolhouse, along with outbuildings, interpret a small, struggling "inland" community known as Runelsburg, "missed" by the railroad.

The Cleary Farmhouse, originally the home of Julius and Lena Kroll and family, was settled on 160 acres and was originally located southwest of what is now Prosser, Nebraska. Julius had emigrated from Germany in his late teens, and Lena was born in Germany as well. They married in 1882, and before the big farmhouse was completed in 1893, they set up house in a tiny frame structure. Mrs. Fran Jacobitz, a granddaughter born after Julius' death, has heard that her grandfather was "firm and stern". When he assigned a chore, it was wise to carry it out expeditiously! The original Kroll home place was not Julius' only farm land. He saw to it that each of his five children received a farm.

*The Cleary Farmhouse and 1893 Farmstead are open on weekends only.

The historic Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church originally came from Hampton, Nebraska, as a Danish Lutheran Church. The 'little white church', neatly trimmed in jade green, is nestled on the south end of the museum grounds, along the Wood River and framed against the sylvan background of Hall County Park. Built in 1888, the church stands symbolic of the thousands of rural churches that once peppered the great plains. Used not only for Sunday morning services, church bells could also toll for Sunday school, Bible study, mid-week prayer meetings, funerals and weddings. In addition, these churches became the focal point of organized social life, emphasis on family participation: sewing circles, Ladies Aid, missionary societies, picnics, ice cream socials, oyster suppers, hayrack rides, skating parties, temperance rallies, and fund-raising fairs and festivals.

The one-room Rural Schoolhouse is sure to bring back memories. Once located near Gibbon, Nebraska, the little white schoolhouse holds 33 wood-and-cast iron school desks of various sizes with folding seats and inkwells in the upper right corner of the writing surface. The school also contains a potbelly stove, along with a blackboard at the front, complete with a paddle near the teacher's desk.

Taylor Ranch & Ovina Station: The original store from the historic 10,000-acre ranch in Hall County that became one of the nation's most important sheep feeding operations, belonging originally to Robert Taylor. Taylor, considered the 'Sheep King', owned thousands of acres across Nebraska, including land in Hall County. Pick up a copy of "Sheep King" from Stuhr's gift shop, Prairie Treasures, to learn more about this fascinating Nebraska rancher.

In its day the Taylor House was one of the showplaces of Hall County, with nine bedrooms, three sitting rooms, a nursery, play room, large dining room, office, large kitchen and pantry, and three baths, it was considered a mansion. Among guests entertained at the ranch were President Theodore Roosevelt, during his visit to Grand Island in 1903. A 100-year celebration of this visit will take place in May 2003 at Stuhr Museum.