The elevator was built in 1926, the same year the community of Adams was established by the Tex-Co Grain Company.

The elevator has mainly held wheat, the primary crop in the area, and operated continuously from its opening to at least 1983.

The larger has a double, swinging door, and leads into the area where grain was unloaded from wagons and trucks.

[2] In 2017, a news story reported that the old grain elevator has developed a noticeable lean toward the north, because of the prairie wind.

Apparently this has occurred since the 1980s, when the Rock Island removed its track and a grain truck fell through the elevator floor.