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Pictures of two Old Stone/Rock barns!!!

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JD Seller

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I was out and about today and thought you might enjoy these two old stone barns. They are on the State of Iowa Prison farm near Anamosa.

Dairy barn built in 1912. Look at the workmanship on the center part of the barn.
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Here is a picture of the rear of the barn. The walls are a good 3 foot thick. Look at how thick the window sills are.
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Here is the end of the old Dairy barn. They put a garage door in the barn to make it still useful. They did a pretty good job of keeping it in character. I know the "new" rock are narrower but I bet that the thick old rock would be about impossible to find these days.

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This hay barn was built in 1915 to the south of the dairy barn.

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I wish I had my camera with me. There are many more buildings on this farm that are unique and just amazing in the quality of workmanship.
 
I am sure it could be found somewhere, but I wonder what hourly rate those stone masons were receiving back in the early 1900's. Someone some where can say my Great Great Grandpa helped build those. Thanks for the pictures. Of course the fiscally responsible thing would be to tear them down because the upkeep is high and usability less than desired. When I was in Germany England and other
European countries, all "new" buildings had to look old, as that is what the tourists want to see. So old buildings are taken down stone by stone and that stone is repurposed on the new building. gobble
 
The stone used for the prison came from right over the hill at Weber's Stone quarry. The large stone was used when all work was done by hand. The thinner stone when done with machines. Weber's will cut stone to meet your needs.
 
This is the County museum in Walhalla, SC. It was originally built as a 3 story tobacco warehouse in 1892 using quartz field rock. Was a Ford tractor dealership in the 40's. In the 50's, it was used as the county court house while the old courthouse was being replaced.
It is a great museum. Has a preserved 32 foot Cherokee canoe dating to about 1750 on display. Hewed out of one heart pine log.
Richard in NW SC
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Was wondering what kind of stone? Limestone? Looks like it cut pretty good. Great looking buildings.

Garry
 
JD! Makes me Homesick! Born and raised north of there. Many more barns in the area, My grandfather and dad rented the stone barn in Stone City to store hay in way back when. And did you notice the red triple barn on the hill above this dairy barn(brhind the penetenciary?)
 
The prison system still owns the farm. They have a farm manager and they farm the farms themselves. The farms used to provide meat and produce for the prison population. They still did the meat until 10-15 years ago. They now still have cows but sell the calves as feeder calves.

What your seeing is fence line feed bunks. The calves are feed a TMR ration. That would be corn silage, dry ground corn, tub ground hay and wet gluten mixed in a feeder wagon and feed in the concrete bunks.

So it is still a working farm but not a dairy for years.

I am not sure how the Prison system got ownership of the farms. They all are not right by the prison. The northern farms are 3-4 miles away and the southern farm is several miles south of that.

The farms actually generate a profit for the state.
 
(quoted from post at 08:00:09 10/27/15) What did they do for foundations for all that weight?
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Don't know about those in particular but around here they used big stone slabs for footers and some of the locations were nearly swamp ground. The ones used under the old Belvedere Hotel in Montrose were about 14' x 6' x 18" according to some of the guys that dug them out, loaded them onto trucks and hauled them off (I don't believe that any of those boys are still alive - I heard the stories while working with some of them in the late '70s). The story was that a then-new 936 Cat had all it could handle getting them onto the trucks! :shock:
 
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(quoted from post at 08:00:09 10/27/15) What did they do for foundations for all that weight?
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Don't know about those in particular but around here they used big stone slabs for footers and some of the locations were nearly swamp ground. The ones used under the old Belvedere Hotel in Montrose were about 14' x 6' x 18" according to some of the guys that dug them out, loaded them onto trucks and hauled them off (I don't believe that any of those boys are still alive - I heard the stories while working with some of them in the late '70s). The story was that a then-new 936 Cat had all it could handle getting them onto the trucks! :shock:
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Can't edit so:
Should have read [b:58fb3584da]930[/b:58fb3584da] Cat NOT 936 Cat
 
Mortar deterioration would probably be the largest item, then the wood rafter tails/overhangs and facia then the roofs.
 
Although he was being sarcastic, that is the words used by no nothings that think new construction is better than old. Maybe they just don't like the way the old buildings look. All over the country perfectly good buildings are torn down in the name of improvement. Failure to provide maintenance and concentrating on maintenance costs often cause people to think they can't afford continual maintenance. Then they aren't around to see that maintenance on the new is almost the same as the old, and the new is junk within 20 years. How much equipment gets replaced because it is "worn out"? Very little equipment actually gets truly worn out.
 
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