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 ...

In 1935, the nation was home to 6.8 million farms, and most had at least one barn. By 2007, only about 650,000 of these structures remained. Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected by ...

Not long ago, I found myself on an old farm. There was a barn, but it was more than that – a place with an air of history about it that one could feel the moment your feet hit the ground. There was an ...

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 ...

We need to protect the old barns, school houses and stage stops. Put metal roofs on the log buildings up Brush Creek or they will not be around much longer. Somebody needs to step up, spend the money ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excavated in Canada, this Eastern red cedar log turned out to be remarkably well-preserved for its age: 3,775 years old. A new study published in the journal Science suggests that an ordinary old log ...

A new study suggests that an ordinary old log could help refine strategies to tackle climate change. A team of researchers analyzed a 3,775-year-old log and the soil it was excavated from. Their ...