barns

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS MD-15

Death Valley Ranch, Barn (Stables), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County...

Significance: This large stable and storage complex was one of the first major construction projects that followed the massive remodeling of the Main House. Its decoratively stuccoed exterior and red tiled roo... More

Death Valley Ranch, Barn (Stables), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County...

Significance: This large stable and storage complex was one of the first major construction projects that followed the massive remodeling of the Main House. Its decoratively stuccoed exterior and red tiled roo... More

Andalusia, State Road vicinity (Bensalem Township), Andalusia, Bucks C...

Significance: The house is the work of Thomas U. Walter, architect of the Capitol Dome in Washington, D.C. He enlarged a smaller and earlier house to create this Greek Revival masterpiece. The house is one of t... More

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris Coun...

Significance: The Wick House stands upon the Wick Tract which was purchased in 1746. The present house was probably erected in 1747. The encampment of the Continental Army in the winter of 1779-1780 was on the ... More

Tempe Wick House, Mendham Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, Morris Coun...

Significance: The Wick House stands upon the Wick Tract which was purchased in 1746. The present house was probably erected in 1747. The encampment of the Continental Army in the winter of 1779-1780 was on the ... More

Liriodendron, Barn, 502 West Gordon Street, Bel Air, Harford County, M...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

High Gate Carriage House, 801 Fairmont Avenue, Fairmont, Marion County...

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Longview Farm, Show Horse Barn, Longview Road, Lees Summit, Jackson Co...

Significance: The Show Horse Barn was a pivotal structure on the farm, both for its physical presence and for its key role in the history of the farm. The barn, 260' x 150' in size and built at a cost of $100,0... More

Bird hunting party, on a levee with marsh grasses along the shore Jas....

Drawing shows several anxiously waiting men with rifles, looking to the right, possibly a duck hunting party, on a levee with marsh grasses along the shore, which partially obscures two men in a rowboat, possib... More

Barn, house for W.J. Dean, house for H.N.E.

Photomechanical print published May 23, 1885 in American Architect & Building News shows competition entry by Thomas Holyoke for $1500 barn as elevations, plans, details, and perspective projection. Also on the... More

Dan Haskel, west of Milldale, Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Old barn at Mt. Vernon - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Negative broken and taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072813. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Government farm, Fairbanks Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Photo by Johnson. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Farming scenes. Goats and barn. 1920s Washington DC. Public domain.

The Theodor Horydczak Collection - architecture and social life of Washington DC in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Decorated Barn, State Route 73 (Colebrookdale Township), Gabelsville, ...

Survey number: HABS PA-5264 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Leesburg Townsite, Barn, Napias Creek, Salmon, Lemhi County, ID

Survey number: HABS ID-106-S Public domain photograph of a farm barn, granary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

House and barns of large-scale dairy farm. Windsor County, New Hampshi...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Vermont, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clynmalira Manor - Barns, Sparks Crossroads, Maryland

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1832. A Carroll homestead. Has stone barns of interesting construction with patterned brick. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11837-3. Credit l... More

[Massachusetts barn], gelatin silver print

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorsuch Barn, Verona, Baltimore County, Maryland

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1806. An extraordinary stone structure with patterned air-vents laid in brick on side walls and gable ends. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11... More

Old Log Barn, Wentworth vic., Rockingham County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-79. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

A black and white photo of a barn, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, rur...

Original negative missing. Stamped on back of mount of print: D157. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divis... More

E.B. Cade-Saunders House, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11835-159. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase... More

Fullam residence, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Shelves as plan...

Architectural drawing showing shelving designs and details of barn construction for the Fullam residence in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Sheet B. Date from drawing. John P. and Alice (Freiheit) Fullam, clients. Unpr... More

Large working farm in rural America

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Cheveaux Barn, Perryville, Perry County, MO

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A traditional black Kentucky tobacco barn

Black barns raise the heat inside, aiding the curing of tobacco Many got their color from creosote, which repelled termites. Soon many Kentucky barns were painted black just as a fashion statement. Digital imag... More

"Pass-through" barn in the Amana Colonies, Iowa

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Barn, Funspot mini golf, Route 3, Weirs Beach, New Hampshire

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Scott's barn, Deposit, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Catskills, Borscht Belt. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside A... More

Log barn, Kirov Street (around 1900), Eniseisk, Russia

Title, date, and place from photographer's inventory. Number assigned by photographer: enis013. Credit line: Brumfield photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...

Park includes Dr. William Henry Burritt's eclectic mansion, a barnyard, and animals. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alab... More

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...

Park includes Dr. William Henry Burritt's eclectic mansion, a barnyard, and animals. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alab... More

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Scenic view: barn in Northeast California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

There's no need to avert your eyes. The accident in the making at this...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Freshly unloaded hay bales at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spre...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A stunningly red barn in Crook County, north of Moorcroft, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

McCoy O'Toole at play near the barns at the Ladder Livestock Ranch, ba...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ranch buildings at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Replication of what the museum calls a "prairie-style barn" too ricket...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Horse barn at Big Creek cattle ranch on the Colorado border, near the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Hay rolls, a crepe myrtle tree in full bloom, and an old, rusting barn...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Nearby big and little barns in Grand Isle, Vermont, the northern half ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, June 9, 1893

Available text: Transcription

Bos Farm, Barn, 4605 Cameron Bridge Road West, Manhattan, Gallatin Cou...

2017 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: The Bos Farm exhibits characteristics of several phases of the vernacular building form of early homesteads in the Gallatin Valley. The site is 10 mile... More

Crouse Homestead, Barn, 9720 Walker Road, Belgrade, Gallatin County, M...

2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize Significance: The Crouse Homestead is significant not only for its connection to a pioneering family of Montana's agricultural industry, but also as an example of a transitional p... More

Maul Stone Barn (1791), (Oley Township), General Lesher's grave vicini...

Survey number: HABS PA-5280 Building/structure dates: 1791 Initial Construction

Boar's Nest Ranch (San Jacinto), Horse Barn, San Jacinto, Elko County,...

Survey number: HABS NV-44-B Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sainsevain Property, 14804 Summit Avenue, Fontana, San Bernardino Coun...

Significance: The 1874 residence and ancillary structures a smokehouse and reservoir, are eligible for listing on the National Register according to Criteria A, B, C, (and D). The Sainsevain Complex is signif... More

Boar's Nest Ranch (San Jacinto), Horse Barn, San Jacinto, Elko County,...

Survey number: HABS NV-44-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

King's Mill, Williamsburg vic., James City County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-48. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

Pond Farm Pottery, 17000 Armstrong Woods Road, Guerneville, Sonoma Cou...

Entry 2013 HALS Challenge: Documenting the Cultural Landscapes of Women. Significance: The Pond Farm Pottery landscape is significant as the school, studio, and residence of Marguerite Wildenhain, an influenti... More

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, June 9, 1893

Available text: Transcription

Fort Larned, Barracks (East), Larned, Pawnee County, KS

Significance: Fort Larned was originally built of adobe. In 1865 the first stone structure was erected. By 1868 there were ten permanent sandstone buildings. Nine of these still stand to be viewed by the pub... More

North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Leban...

Significance: Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, which operated from 1787 to 1947, was the largest, most successful, and influential of the Shaker communities in America, earning the reputation as the "Central Minis... More

Longview Farm, South Dairy Barn-Milkhouse, Longview Road, Lees Summit,...

Significance: Completed in 1914, it was an elaborate estate built for Robert A. Long, a wealthy Kansas City lumberman. Located just 20 miles south of Kansas City, Longview was intended to be both a rural retrea... More

Union Stock Yard, 550 West Exchange Road, Ogden, Weber County, UT

Significance: According to a 2014 Cultural Resource Assessment, during its heyday, the Union Stock Yard was a key fixture in largest livestock market west of Denver. The activities at the yard brought Ogden nat... More

Nicholson (Abel) House, Hancocks Bridge, Salem County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS NJ-305 Building/structure dates: 1722 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1859 Subsequent Work National Regis... More

Nicholson (Abel) House, Hancocks Bridge, Salem County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS NJ-305 Building/structure dates: 1722 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1859 Subsequent Work National Regis... More

North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Leban...

Significance: Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, which operated from 1787 to 1947, was the largest, most successful, and influential of the Shaker communities in America, earning the reputation as the "Central Minis... More

North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Leban...

Significance: Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, which operated from 1787 to 1947, was the largest, most successful, and influential of the Shaker communities in America, earning the reputation as the "Central Minis... More

Robin Barn, 1616 Highway 31, Arnaudville, St. Martin Parish, LA

2002 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The barn consists of two almost equal sized cribs built at different times. They are separated by a breezeway as in the form of a "dog-trot," that is, two st... More

John R. Trimm Barn, Old Natchez Trace, Tishomingo, Tishomingo County, ...

Significance: The Trimm Barn, built about 1940, is an example of a transverse crib barn, the most common barn type in the Upland South. Originally built to house registered cattle, the gambrel roof barn was mo... More

The Vale, Beaver Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS MA-204 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1800 Subsequent Work Building/struct... More

Kuenzi Barn, County Trunk EM, Watertown, Jefferson County, WI

Significance: This barn is one of few remaining examples of farm outbuildings built of German half-timber (Fachwerkbau) construction. The barn was built ca. 1850 of native white oak timbers held by mortise and ... More

Ionia, Barn, Route 640 vicinity, Trevilians, Louisa County, Virginia

Significance: This late 18th-century barn of heavy-timber construction is one of the oldest in Virginia. It is an excellent example of an English barn design adapted to the New World landscape. Of special not... More

Lee Barn & Outbuildings, Leetown, Jefferson County, WV

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS WV-4 Building/structure dates: 1810 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1972 Demolished

H. Barns to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, August 01, 1863 (Writes on beh...

Hudson-Cippa-Wolf Ranch, Hay Barn, Sorento Road, Sacramento, Sacrament...

Survey number: HABS CA-2656-C Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Richmond Hill Plantation, Sterling Creek Lettuce Shed, East of Richmon...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sheriff's sale of real estate. By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, t...

Broadside announcing the public sale of a house and barn owned by John H. Kephart. Includes a description and two illustrations of the properties. DCRM(G) example 1B5 - no title proper, opening words DCRM(G) e... More

Culp Farm, Barn, West of Rock Creek, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-281 Survey number: HABS PA-5379-A

Culp Farm, Barn, West of Rock Creek, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-281 Survey number: HABS PA-5379-A

Wilkins Farm, Secondary Barn, South side of Dove Hollow Road, 6000 fee...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Botetourt Inn & Barn (Ruins), Main Street, Gloucester, Gloucester Coun...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barn and house on Maplewood Farm, Maplewood, N.H.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Austin D. Kilham Place, 8 Thorndike Street, Beverly, Essex County, MA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-63 Survey number: HABS MA-266 Building/structure dates: 1844 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: before 1900 Subsequent Work

Hope Lodge, Bethlehem & Skippack Pikes, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57, FN-58, FN-59, FN-60 Survey number: HABS PA-18 Building/structure dates: 1723 Initial Construction

Grant-Kohrs Ranch, Thoroughbred Barn, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell C...

Survey number: HABS MT-39-E National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000738

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Barn & Shed Buildings, 11601 Old Pond...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

T. A. Leonard Barn, Old Moscow Highway, Pullman, Whitman County, WA

1986 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: The T.A. Leonard Barn is significant because it represents a period of agricultural development when farmers were experimenting with new production conc... More

T. A. Leonard Barn, Old Moscow Highway, Pullman, Whitman County, WA

1986 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: The T.A. Leonard Barn is significant because it represents a period of agricultural development when farmers were experimenting with new production conc... More

Ballantyne Robinson House, Military Plaza (141 South Fifth Avenue), Tu...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eli Whitney Armory, Barn, Whitney Avenue, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Governor Jonathan Belcher Place, 401 Adams Street, Milton, Norfolk Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS MA-196 Building/structure dates: 1781 Initial Construction

Governor Jonathan Belcher Place, 401 Adams Street, Milton, Norfolk Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS MA-196 Building/structure dates: 1781 Initial Construction

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...

Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More

John Elder House & Barn, Twenty-fourth & Ellerslie Streets, Paxtang, D...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-20, FN-22 Survey number: HABS PA-32 Building/structure dates: 1740 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1744 Subsequent Work

Pelster House-Barn, Cedar Fork Road, Detmold, Franklin County, MO

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pelster House-Barn, Cedar Fork Road, Detmold, Franklin County, MO

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jones Livestock Barn, Tobaccoville Road (moved to South Main Street, O...

Significance: The barn on the Jones Plantation at Bethania, was built in 1840 as a shelter for livestock and hay. It was constructed of heavy timber, hand hewn by the slaves of the plantation. The barn was so w... More

Jones Livestock Barn, Tobaccoville Road (moved to South Main Street, O...

Significance: The barn on the Jones Plantation at Bethania, was built in 1840 as a shelter for livestock and hay. It was constructed of heavy timber, hand hewn by the slaves of the plantation. The barn was so w... More

Altman Farm, Barn, East side of Buckely Road, 0.5 mile south of Sevent...

Significance: This 1923 barn is constructed of crude cast-in-place concrete up to the second floor, horizontal wood siding over wood frame on the second floor, and a plank-truss roof system with original wood s... More

Rose Barn, Emmitsburg Road (U.S. Route 15), Gettysburg, Adams County, ...

Significance: It is located on the 225-acre George Washington Rose Farm. The barn was constructed approximately 1812, and became a battlefield landmark during the second day of the battle of Gettysburg. At that... More

Hanover, (moved to Clemson University campus, Clemson, SC), Pinopolis,...

Significance: Early plantation house. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS SC-36 Building/structure dates: 1716 Initial Construction

Hanover, (moved to Clemson University campus, Clemson, SC), Pinopolis,...

Significance: Early plantation house. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS SC-36 Building/structure dates: 1716 Initial Construction

Hanover, (moved to Clemson University campus, Clemson, SC), Pinopolis,...

Significance: Early plantation house. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS SC-36 Building/structure dates: 1716 Initial Construction