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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Barns was: tobacco and pipes
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:24:43 -0700 (PDT)

Van Dell, you are probably already familiar with his reearch , if not google
Howard Marshall along with barns....bobford


--- On Tue, 6/24/08, VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Barns was: tobacco and pipes
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 9:45 AM
> I am envious of the barn some friends have acquired.
> They found a farm being sold and bought the 4 acres
> that contained the farmstead. There is an old barn
> set into a slope, animals kept on ground floor dug
> half into the hill and the main floor has drive in
> double doors on the other side of the barn. I don't
> understand why there were so few barns built like that
> in this area.
> The ground floor walls are stone, with clay(?) for
> mortar, at least it looks, feels, and tastes like clay
> so short of analysis....
> The beams holding up the main floor are hand hewn,
> though I think the wall and floor boards are from a
> saw mill.
> The loft is to one side, almost like a mezzanine. The
> area between the big doors is open to the roof,
> perhaps to allow pitching hay from a wagon into the
> loft, though perhaps the rest of the main floor except
> the drive area was for storing hay and that loft may
> be just a way to use the space above a grain bin.
> Opposite the drive in doors on the main floor is
> another pair of large doors but the sill on these is
> at least six feet off the ground. Since I see no sign
> of ever a way to drive up through that door, my guess
> is that it might have been for winnowing grain.
> I know at one point that was how grain was separated
> doors on both sides of the threshing floor to let
> breezes carry the chaff away.
> My guess is that this barn goes back to at least civil
> war. So far they've shown no interest in letting me
> dismantle in order to rebuild at my place. I guess
> the fact that they value this shows why we are
> friends.
> I am interested of course in any information about
> this or questions that I might want to look into. I
> am an amateur architect and history buff so I read and
> study this sort of this a lot, though not
> systematically. Most of the barns that I have
> personal experience with dated from about 1900. Most
> buildings around here older that were replaced before
> my time. Now most of what I remember has been
> replaced with structures that are modern, practical
> (at least in today's world) and very mundane....
> Oh yes the owner is now a subscriber to this group, so
> welcome and feel free to add any comments.
> Van Dell
>
>
> --- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> but it's a pity that
> > there's no practical reason to preserve the old
> > barns any longer. And they
> > are slowly falling to the ground.
> >
> > Many of the barns had cow stalls and dairies on the
> > ground level, but keeping
> > dairly animals is about gone too.
> >
>
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