*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. MAKANDA, ILL. - You can huff and puff and not knock this straw house down. In fact, the Makanda Inn held up to the fierce winds ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Makanda, Ill. - You can huff and puff and not knock this straw house down. In fact, the Makanda Inn held up to the fierce winds ...

MAKANDA - The measures taken to make the Makanda Inn an energy-efficient building are many, but none are more noticeable than the building's three-foot thick hay bale walls. Coated in stucco, the ...

Stepping through the oversized front entryway at the Makanda Inn, visitors immediately discover a venue distinctly Southern Illinois and based in nature. The four-bedroom bed and breakfast opened its ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. There’s an embarrassment of riches in ...