4800 West 92nd Avenue Westminster, CO 80031  Explore Westminster
Wick Silo   Wick Hill Farm, Semper, Colorado   Standing today on
the lawn of a Village Inn restaurant at 9000 Yukon Street
 (click for mapped location), the Wick Silo, a lovely old
stacked lumber silo silently observes the comings and Wick
Silogoings of busy suburban Westminster.  Why is it there?   The
silo was built by a prolific immigrant farm family headed by
John and Mary Wick.  The Wicks raised four children and farmed
on "Wick Hill" from 1905 until 1930.  They raised dairy cattle,
bees, and specialty fowl and experimented with grain crops,
flowers and fruit trees.  After two wooden stave silos were
destroyed by wind, John built the fourteen-sided stacked lumber
silo around 1912, which withstood the elements for decades
thereafter.   In the early 1970s, the area that was once the
Wick farm was developed into a residential neighborhood, stores,
restaurants and offices.   Since the silo was an important
visual reminder of the agricultural