Summary: The Friends of Wyneken group and volunteers gathered recently at the Wyneken House to repair the roof and to prepare one side of the house for boarding up to protect it from the elements. They also did cleanup around the site, which is off Winchester Road just south of the Allen-Adams county line.

The “Join Hands Day” project was sponsored by local chapters of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, which have contributed previously to the restoration effort.

The house was once the home of Lutheran minister the Rev. Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken. He helped form or nurture more than 20 Lutheran congregations in Fort Wayne, northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. He also was one of the Lutheran leaders involved in the formation of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Built about 1850, the two-story, wood-frame house formerly stood along Adams County Road 1000 N. With the house facing potential demolition, the Friends of Wyneken group raised the money to move it last June to its present location on Winchester Road.