Posted by Near Homeless on February 23, 2010 at 21:14:22 from (74.221.165.71):
In Reply to: Re: Farmhouse Huntin posted by massey333 on February 23, 2010 at 14:41:58:
That may be so nowdays and mostly in town because somebody has to live on the south side of the street. But I can tell you up here in the northern plains, 99 percent of farm homes built in the days before good insulation, would never, ever put a front door facing the prevailing northwest winds. A back door to the west maybe if its inside an enclosed porch, but I can't think of a single farmhouse in my township or county built before 1960 that has a north facing front door.
Another thing kind of related is how most mature farmsteads on the plains will have a tree grove on the north and west side of the farm but nothing on the south and east to allow full sunlight and some cool summer breezes but protects from old man winter who will usually come from the north/northwest.
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