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 ...

Alec and Claudia Webster of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) Example of mortise and tenon joinery inside the hay barn, common in 19th century New England construction ...

Windows were framed into the cordwood with rough-cut poplar. Post-and-beam construction combined with cordwood barn building produces a farmstead outbuilding that protects livestock in the winter and ...

Originally, these barns were sheeted in with wide vertical planks. As Nova Scotia’s great stands of mature long-lived red ...