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The following is a selection of books related to historic barns. If you have a book you would like to recommend to this growing collection, please contact us.

American Barns: A Pictorial History
Caranvan, Jill
Courage Books, 1995

 

American Barns: In a Class by Themselves

Schuler, Stanley

Schiffer Publishing, 1984

 

An Age of Barns
Sloane, Eric
Voyageur Press, reprint 2001

 

Barns
Vlach, John Michael
W. W. Norton & Company. 2003

 

Barns, Sheds, and Outbuildings

Halsted, Byron D.

Alan C Hood & Co., 1995 (reprint)

 

The Barn: A Vanishing Landmark in North America

Arthur, Eirc, and Whitney, Dudley

A & W Publishers, 1975

 

The Barn as an Element in the Cultural Landscape of North America: A Bibliography

Calkins, Charles F.

Vance Bibliographies, 1979

 

The Barns of East Granby: Our Agricultural Heritage
Guinan, Betty and Holly, Ted
East Granby Historical Society, 1989

 

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England
Hubka, Thomas C
University Press of New England, 1984

 

Building the Timbeframe House

Benson, Tedd

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980

 

Connecticut Valley Vernacular:
The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields

O'Gorman, James F.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

 

Early Domestic Architrcture of Connecticut

Kelly, J. Frederick

Dover, NY: originally published in 1924

 

Farm Builder's Handbook

Michigan

Structures Publishing Co.

  

Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
Visser, Thomas D
University Press of New England, 1997

 

Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay

Cummings, Abbott Lowell

Harvard Press, 1979

 

Living Barns: How to Find and Restore a Barn of Your Own

Burden, Ernest

New York Graphic Society, 1977

 

The New World Dutch Barn: The Evolution, Forms, and Structure of a Disappearing Icon
Fitchen, John
Syracuse University Press, 2001

 

The Old Barn Book
Noble, Allen G
Rutgers University Press, 1996

 

Pole & Post Building Construction

Extension Agricultural Engineers

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

  

Practical Plans for Barns, Carriage Houses, Stables, and other Country Buildings

Loveless, David and Joan

Berkshire Traveller Press, 1978

 

The Preservation of Historic Barns (National Park Service Preservation Brief 20)
Auer, Michael J
Available online at http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/tps/briefs/brief20.htm

 

Storehouses of Time: Historic Barns of the Northeast

Zeigler, Philip C.

Down East Books, 1985

 

The Timber-Frame Home

Benson, Tedd

The Taunton Press, 1988 

 

Timber Frame Construction

Sobon, Jack, and Schroeder, Roger

Garden Way Publishing

 

Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley
Darcy Purinton & Dale F. Cahill
Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2009

Available online at www.tobaccosheds.com