Larry Gerdes is having his barn taken down and disassembled in Malta Bend, Mo. It’s about the size of a three-car garage but stands much taller in a clearing surrounded by six-foot stalks of corn. The ...
If you live in the country and enjoy seeing wildlife on your land, you may want to reconsider tearing down that “old eyesore” in the corner of your field. The Ozarks countryside is dotted with barns, ...
In addition to their frailty, old barns also are expensive to maintain, said Wallace Yoder, president of the Bloomington, Ill.-based BarnKeepers, which works to maintain barns, mainly in McLean County ...
If you could name your own Top 10 list of most-endangered historic places, what would you include? God’s house and barns. That’s what I’d put on it. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. SHELBYVILLE, Ind.– A Shelbyville woman has ...
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 ...
Furniture craftsman Chris Brown built a large outdoor farm table for David and Gina Mussett that’s become an attraction at the couple’s front yard facing Edinboro Lake. The beauty, skill and ...
Ohio Wildlife Center officials are hoping that a 19th-century barn will help fulfill their 21st-century needs. Chances are good that it will, based on the success of a similar barn erected last year ...
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 ...
In 2017, the Tipton family — Benjamin, Michelle and two teenage children — returned to Vermont after nearly a decade away to establish a family farm. They found and purchased a 20-acre former ...
Niagara-on-the-Lake council has approved the teardown of two 20th-century barns in the town’s rural area, rejecting a ...