VANCOUVER, Wash. – Old barns have special appeal for Jim Riedl. There’s history. The economic value of hand-hewn beams fashioned from old-growth timber. And, Riedl says, there’s mystery. A darkened, ...

My parents’ feed and seed country store was located adjacent to a fairly large farm with an equally large old hay barn. The barn’s first floor was divided into wooden stalls which were shrouded with ...

CHICO — Back in the day, the DeMeyer family would throw harvest parties for workers and friends in their big hay barn in west Chico. “We’d do it nearly every year,” said Ray DeMeyer, who would find ...

While traveling through West Virginia and Pennsylvania last month, a large part of the time on two lane highways, my wife and I began to notice the many interesting barns along the way. Many appeared ...

DANVERS — Residents will be able to learn more about a proposed $3.4 million project to refurbish the old Hay Barn at Endicott Park into a place for weddings, events, conferences, community gatherings ...

Barns are the sentinels of our rural landscape. Many have kept watch over our fields and small towns for a century or more. These engineering marvels of ancient timbers hold the history of framing and ...

The Dunne family's barn at Hillbrook House, near Carnew Co. Wicklow, before it was restored using a grant from the Heritage Council. Sitting in the yard of Hillbrook House, near Carnew, Co. Wicklow is ...

Heartwarming holiday tale about an elderly farmer who discovers her beloved former property is now home to kind strangers.

CHICO — In nearly every direction at Meriam Park is the sound of hammering and construction, but the tone is a little different on Alcott Avenue, where a century-old barn is coming back to life. The ...

Former Times-Reporter staff writer Renee Brown Parker takes us on a personal journey of replacing the family’s nearly 100-year-old barn with a new one. Old bank barns are familiar sights around here.