VANCOUVER, Wash. – Old barns have special appeal for Jim Riedl. There’s history. The economic value of hand-hewn beams fashioned from old-growth timber. And, Riedl says, there’s mystery. A darkened, ...

YANKTON, S.D. -- My parents' ranch is big enough to include three original homesteads, upon which there are still two old barns standing. One is still used well and often. Its large sliding doors open ...

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 ...

ELKO, Minn. -- When Scott Tempel and his wife Kara bought their 13-acre farm in Scott County, Minn., a year and a half ago, it came with a storybook dairy barn that had faded red boards, a steep metal ...

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 ...

"It's nice when people from out of the area appreciate and repurpose the history and the heritage of the area," one agent ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

RED LODGE - The stately, lap-sided barn soaks up the late summer sun like a dowager on vacation. Tanned into deep shades of auburn, the 100-foot-long structure exudes timeless serenity. It's not known ...

Not long ago, I found myself on an old farm. There was a barn, but it was more than that – a place with an air of history about it that one could feel the moment your feet hit the ground. There was an ...