Deere-Wiman ‘special house’ worth preserving

“If these walls could talk,” is often said of places that bear witness to history. But given the Deere-Wiman House’s 150-year run and the influence, power and reach of the people who once lived there, visitors can practically hear them shouting.

The stories it tells were born of an innovative blacksmith named John Deere, the self-scouring steel plow he invented, and four generations…