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A guide to features of the North American landscape that reflect the history of each region includes information about all types of barns and farm structures in the United States and Canada, and explains how their designs reflect their purposes. UP. ... Read more

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If I had only known.....
This field guide has what I consider to be soso black and white photos and drawings of each type of barn and supporting structures. If you are looking for accurate information on a style of barn and where it may be located this is the book for you.I would perfer better quality photo's and some color. Rather boring presentation!

Fantastic Book on Barns!
For what I wanted the book for it is a fantastic resourse.I build model barns and covered bridges.This book has not only given me new ideas but also a history behind them.Love the book.

Frustratingly brief presentation
While the book presents numerous types of agricultural buildings from all over the U.S., it doesn't go into any sort of detail about any of them, making it of limited reference use. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1916.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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comprehensive and thorough
This is an excellent source for the serios student of vernacular architecture.Noble's book is thorough.He introduces the reader to the evolution of barns and catagorizes barnes by ther ethnic orgin - i.e.German Barn; English Barn.The book contains many photos, but as imoprtantare the plan and section diagrams that Noble provides.This is anexcellent sourcebook. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Sanders Pub. Co.Publication date: 1893Subjects: BarnsStablesFarm buildingsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1893.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Returning to the subject of their bestselling book Barn (1992), David Larkin, with barn preservationists Elric Endersby and Alexander Greenwood, takes the reader on a tour of barns throughout America. Featuring all-new sites and structures, Barn is a perfect introduction for those not yet initiated into the world of barns as well as a definitive resource for all barn owners and architecture enthusiasts.

The book discusses the form and function of American barns. It gives their complete history-from Colonial times to the present, the old and the new-and illustrates the incredible range of styles of these structures. From rural villages in New England to the farmlands of the Midwest, from the Deep South to the Southwest, and up and down the West Coast, Barn: Preservation & Adaptation fully demonstrates the adaptability and enduring charm of one of the most iconic forms of American vernacular architecture.

Today there is great activity restoring and converting barns. No longer used just for farming, barns have been converted into bookstores, theaters, restaurants, garages, and even houses. Barn: Preservation & Adaptation explores renovations, interior design options, and structural and cosmetic changes that have kept these traditional farm buildings vital and functional into the twenty-first century.

This highly engaging history and the profound beauty of these handcrafted structures will enchant all barn aficionados interested in their architecture and their historic preservation.
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Recommended if you're into traditional stlye
Excellent book, if the other book, Barns: Living in Converted and Reinvented Spaces is the "ying", then this book is the "yang". A good inspirational design book if you're interested in reusing an old barn for modern day use and staying within the original design. The text is interesting and informative with the accompanying photos following along with the text. The pictures are overall excellent, sharp, clear, in detail and professionally done, with very very few exceptions. Some buildings are shown with structuraldrawings that help visualize the internal timber frame or stone structure with the accompanying photogaphs. The authors seems to be a die hard traditionalist, very critical and at times mildly insulting to designers that chose to remodel the old barns in the modern way and deviating from what the original builders did. But at times understanding that the modern styleis a better fate than total destruction of a old old structure. ... Read more

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Using Old Farm Buildings serves as a practical guide to adapting different types of farm structures for a wide range of new agricultural uses. ... Read more

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Offering a vivid sense of rural life in the Civil War era, Mr. Bristol's Barn pairs eloquent photographs of a 19th-century barn owned by Abel Bristol with moving selections from the diary of Bristol's neighbor and contemporary, Philo Blinn. 33 duotone photos. ... Read more

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19th century farmer's diary with 20th century photos
This little book is beautifully produced with exquisite photos of an old barn taken by master photographer Szarkowski.The accompanying excerpts from Philo Blinn's 19th century are both poignant and evocative of life in Columbia County New York.Philo Blinn was just an ordinary farmer, but he had a way with words that make his life and that of his neighbors come to life. ... Read more