Farm and Ranch
Outbuilding Designs
from the Historic American Building Survey
These eighteenth and
nineteenth century buildings are samples of the hundreds of barn and
outbuilding designs that have been preserved through the HABS.
View photos and
print measured drawings of floor plans, exterior elevations and
construction details.
Early 1800s - Caldwell-Hutchison Farm, County Road 93, Lowndesville
vicinity, Abbeville County, SC
Card # SC0075
The
Caldwell-Hutchison Farm has a two story dogtrot style log house
that was expanded over the years from an original one story
single-pen log cabin. Farm building drawings include a log smoke house
and a log blacksmith shop.
1811 Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville
vicinity, Baltimore County, MD
Card # MD0462
Most of the
buildings in this complex were built by Nicholas Merriman Bosley
in 1811, although some predate those. A few of the buildings
were added or modified as late as the 1870s. Included in the set
of drawings are a stone barn and barnyard buildings, a brick
horse barn, a stone coachman's house, a carriage house, a meat
house, a spring house, an ice house, a wagon shed and granary, a
brick privy and more.
1826 Jacob Zabriskie Farm Buildings, South
Paramus Road, Paramus, Bergen, NJ
CARD# NJ0257
The plan set that you can
print includes drawings of the Zabriskie's 1826 farmhouse, a
40'x40' three-level, Dutch style, timber-frame barn, a
combination workshop, sleigh house and wood shed, a grain crib,
a corn crib, a small wagon barn and a stone smokehouse. The
drawings include floor plans, exterior elevations, building
sections and construction details.
1870s Deister Farmstead Buildings, Route
442, Stull vicinity, Douglas, KS
CARD# KS0011
The Deister Farmstead is
representative of a way of life on a working farm in the early
years of Kansas' history. The plan set that you can print
includes an 1870s, 26'x54', three-level stone barn, a
stone shedrow barn, a combined smokehouse and chicken coop, and
a combined washroom and utility shed. A later addition to the
farm, a pole-frame wooden barn, is also shown. The drawings have
floor plans, exterior elevations, building sections and
construction details.
1920 Ohler Farmstead Outbuildings, 1375 Mill Run Road,
Mill Run, Fayette, PA
Card #
PA-6748
The Ohler Farmstead, built
around 1910 or 1920 is a typical subsistence farm of
southwestern Pennsylvania. The plan set includes drawings of an
attractive small farmhouse, a 32'x44' all-purpose barn, a
14'x18' garage and a storage shed. The set includes a detail
drawing that shows all of the components of the barn's timber
frame.
1764 -1867 Burrough-Wick
Farm, Outbuildings, Church Road, Delaware Twp, Camden County, NJ
Card # NJ0402
Ice House, privy and
stone smoke house.
White Haven, Shed,
7400 Grant Road, Affton vicinity, St. Louis County, MO
Card # MO1774
The photos of this
practical shed also show a beautiful hillside ice house.
Luther Burbank
House, Greenhouse, 200 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, CA
Card # CA1238
The Historic
American Building Survey is a joint effort of the Library of
Congress and the National Park Service. Read more about their
efforts to preserve America's heritage by visiting their
website:
Built in America To learn more
about any of the designs listed here, search for it by its card
number. Then, explore the vast and ever-growing HABS collection
to view related building designs.
