sentences:  In 1903 his concepts caught the attention of Professor C. B. Dorsey of the University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, who traveled to Indiana to view the barns built by Steele and his associates.Dorsey was apparently impressed, for he hired Steele and Detraz to construct a barn on his farm in Gilberts, Illinois.By 1908 Dorsey's interest in round barns had caught the eye of his University of Illinois colleague Wilber J. Fraser.