Historic Barns of Connecticut

Designations

n/a

Historic Significance

n/a

Field Notes

Insufficient data for inclusion in State Historic Resource Inventory (TL). This structure combines two aspects of tobacco growing: the curing and stripping. The lower level originally had vented side walls that allowed the climate in the barn to be optimized for curing the harvest. The rear of the second floor contains a sweating or stripping room -- a fully finished space where the humidity and temperature could be raised (via large radiators along the walls) to allow for the stripping of the leaves. The State HRI form suggests that this property appears on the 1861 Baker & Tilden Atlas of Hartford City and County. A third building from this property is shown in Visser, Fig. 6-33 (p. 190).

Use (Historic)

• tobacco

Use (Present)

• unknown

Exterior Visible from Public Road?

1

Demolished

n/a

Location Integrity

Unknown

Related features

• Barn
• Complex
• Fields

Environment features

• Open Land
• Residential
• Rural
• Scattered Buildings

Relationship to surroundings

The building sits far back from the road, presumably so that it is located closer to the fields where the tobacco was harvested.

Building Typology

• Tobacco Shed

Materials

• Wood Shingle

Structural System

• Post & Beam

Roof materials

• Asphalt Shingle

Roof type

• Gable

Approximate Dimensions

105x30

Date Compiled

05/26/2010

Compiled By

S. Lessard

Sources

Photographs and field notes by James Sexton, PhD- 5/25/2010