A History of the American Barn

Architectural icons of the traditional agricultural landscape and synonymous with Americana, barns have become vulnerable to the changing circumstances that have eclipsed the rural world of which they are emblematic. Left to decay (“Behind the porticoed house of a long dead farm they found the falling down timbers of a spooky old barn”, Tom Waits sang in his 2004 album Real Gone), thousands of barns are lost ever...