When Scott Tempel and his wife, Kara, bought their 13-acre farm in Scott County a year and a half ago, it came with a storybook dairy barn that had faded red boards, a steep metal roof and an old ...

Larry Gerdes is having his barn taken down and disassembled in Malta Bend, Mo. It's about the size of a three-car garage but stands much taller in a clearing surrounded by 6-foot stalks of corn. The ...

Jeff Marshall rolls along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, counting barns on the horizon — 50 so far today, many of them disintegrating. Marshall heads the National Barn Alliance, a nonprofit that works ...

If you live in the country and enjoy seeing wildlife on your land, you may want to reconsider tearing down that “old eyesore” in the corner of your field. The Ozarks countryside is dotted with barns, ...

If you could name your own Top 10 list of most-endangered historic places, what would you include? God’s house and barns. That’s what I’d put on it. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has ...

Mark Johnson has no problem finding people who want him to build them a barn house, restore old log cabins, fix up big stone fireplaces or do pretty much any restoration work on old buildings. "I'm ...

A piece of Potato Creek State Park's 117-year old history now gone. The Naragon Barn, an icon at the state park, has been ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Michiel Vaughn owes a lot to tobacco. The lucrative crop helped pay for his livelihood in the 1980s when he farmed it in western Kentucky. But a 100-year-old tobacco barn on his ...

TOWN OF BERLIN, Wis. — The decision to tear down the barn wasn't an easy one for Ann and Jerry Ohde. At one time, it was gleaming white, and an important center of the life that Ann had built with her ...

Misinformation can do a tremendous amount of harm. The topic of what to do with old barns is one that is riddled with misinformation and as a result, valuable buildings have been lost. Recent ...