Iowa Barn Foundation tour this weekend.

JimIA · Sep 17, 2012

The 2012 All-State Barn Tour is this weekend and our barn will be part of it again. This always a good time and we display our A-Cs along with it. If you have any interest in old barns this is a great event and a wonderful association. Ours will be apart of the "Northeast Iowa Barns" and is labeled as the "Palmer Barn".
http://www.iowabarnfoundation.org/all-state2012.htm

One quote by a barn owner "As an immigrant from England and recent American citizen, I have come to realize Midwestern barns are like the churches and cathedrals of Europe in scale and importance to the landscape,"

Hope anyone can make it!
Jim

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casenut1 · Sep 17, 2012

wish i could make it out there. love the old barn pics.

Kirk Grau · Sep 18, 2012

Really liked the construction photos. Doesn"t look like the barn has been modified much/at all in the intervening ~100 years. That is kind of rare around here.

Local library here has had speakers in describing the different styles and uses for the old barns in this (SC PA) area on occasion.

Can"t really say, but my impression around here is that most of the big old barns are 50-100 years older than the ones in the midwest and have long since fallen into disrepair or don"t fit into a modern farm operation. Have a guy about 3 miles from here doing a lot of work restoring an old barn to it past glory. Cedar Shake roof, new/repaired siding, foundation repairs, etc. Going to be beautifulwhen he is finished, but he has had scaffolding around the place for 5-6 years now. See him out working on it pretty regularly, but progress is slow doing it himself. Real labor of love for him.

~Kirk

Wheat Farmer · Sep 18, 2012

I love building, and I love old barns. That was real building in those days. Any Chance the kid in the forground is still with us.

Iowa Farmer · Sep 18, 2012

Ours will be on the tour alos. Southwest IA, Dallas County. Peters Barn.

JimIA · Sep 20, 2012

I dont think we have identified who the little guy is in the front. Good chance that it is one of my great uncles. Only one left out of that family.

Iowa Barn Foundation tour this weekend.

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