Barns are the sentinels of our rural landscape. Many have kept watch over our fields and small towns for a century or more. These engineering marvels of ancient timbers hold the history of framing and ...

Myra and I were going through some old family photos recently and we came across a beautiful picture of her family’s barn, built in the 1920s just south of Simla, Colorado. It was an impressive ...

While traveling through West Virginia and Pennsylvania last month, a large part of the time on two lane highways, my wife and I began to notice the many interesting barns along the way. Many appeared ...

Eric Jackson, owner of the Thomas McQuillan Farmstead, stands in front of the historic barn on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Baldwin City resident Eric Jackson recently inherited a barn that has been in ...

For Barbara Rechenberg, history is part of the family business. Rechenberg’s ancestors built a sprawling home on 600 acres in what would eventually become known as the town of Andover in Allegany ...

Photo credit: Photo taken in 1933 of the Kandt-Domann farmstead barn in Dickinson County, Kansas. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress.) Along every rural road there is at least one old barn, either ...