The Radue Chicken Coop originally stood on the August Radue farm about 1 mile east of its present location, north of Freistadt Road on Farmdale Road, and was acquired by the Trinity Historical Society and moved to its present location in 1967. Its structural elements are made of whole log timbers, a common construction type in the area until the late 1870's, when convenient sawmills were not yet available locally and frugal farmers found it more practical to cut trees from their own property to build typical outbuildings. At a later date, as sawn lumber became less expensive and more abundant, the coop would have been re-sided in sawn wood planks. Chickens and other poultry such as ducks, geese, and turkeys were an essential part of farm life: eggs were an important food source used in cooking and baking, chickens and eggs were used for trade, barter, and income, feathers stuffed pillows, coverlets, and mattresses, and some eggs were hatched to increase the flock and provide fresh meat before refrigeration. During the summer, one of the young male poults would be butchered for the Sunday meal, often the only fresh meat of the week, and the traditional Sunday chicken dinner began in this era. The chicken coop, or hen house, provided shelter from weather, protection from predators, a clean place to nest, easier egg collecting by keeping nests in one place, and manure that, when cleaned out regularly, served as good fertilizer for the vegetable garden.