[2] The five-story wooden smock mill with a stage, which stands 68 feet (21 m) tall, sits upon the onetime estate of Colonel George Fabyan, but is now part of the Kane County Forest Preserve District.

He then had it moved to its present location in Geneva Township on the east side of the Fox River, close to Illinois Route 25 in July 1915.

[4][5] The Edgar E. Belding Company of West Chicago was contracted by Fabyan to move the windmill from York Center.

[4][5] The windmill was reassembled on its present site by a Danish millwright named Rasmussen, with the assistance of John Johnson and six others from the Wilson Bros. Construction Co. After nineteen months, the relocation and reconstruction were completed.

[5][7][4][8] The windmill was a functioning mill used by the Fabyans for grinding several types of grain, including corn, wheat, rye, and oats.

The brake wheel, located in the cap, rotates an upright shaft running the height of the mill.

In the basement, he had ovens installed whose vents and chimney extended underground beneath Route 25 to a structure that once stood on the other side.

During the flour rationing of World War I, the bakery supposedly produced bread for the Fabyan family and even for their two bears, Tom and Jerry.

[9] Kane County considered the windmill's demolition as early as 1990 when it became structurally unsafe for public inspection.