Durham-Perry Farmstead on the Perry Farm includes an English three-bay barn built by Thomas Durham about 1840, a farmhouse first built in the 1840s, and a horse barn probably built in the late 1840s after the original house and barn. The English barn is a timber-frame, beam-on-post structure with slender bark carved log rafters, an attached shed-roofed milking parlor added later, and an overhead hay hook track used to lift hay bales into the loft; its center bay served as a threshing floor, while the side bays stored feed and sheltered livestock. The milking parlor had iron stanchions to hold cows during milking and a trough in the concrete floor to collect manure. The farmhouse may originally have resembled an I-house, two rooms wide and one room deep with a central hallway, reflecting a traditional British folk form common in pre-railroad America, particularly in the Tidewater South, and the Durhams may also have had a detached summer kitchen off the northwest corner. There is some evidence the Durham home was an inn on a stage route between Danville and Chicago. Thomas Durham lived on the farm for 19 years and died on March 13, 1854; he and his wife had twelve children. His son-in-law David Perry took over the farm in 1866, died in 1887, and left it to his wife Martha, who died six months later, after which it passed to their only son Alvah Perry. The last heir, daughter Lomira Perry, left the farm in trust to the State of Illinois in her 1961 will, and the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency awarded the Perry Farm to the Bourbonnais Township Park District in 1988. The farmstead occupies the Kennedy Drive frontage of the 169-acre farm now called Perry Farm Park, Thomas Durham's gravesite lies near the orchard west of the house, and the Durham-Perry Farmstead was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 2006.