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The Anderson Barn near Johnstown in Weld County, Colorado, also known as the Carlson Barn, is a gambrel-roofed ornamental block building built in 1913. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1] It is about 25 by 70 feet (7.6 m × 21.3 m) in plan. It has walls built of plain-faced ornamental blocks.
The Thornton Adobe Barn near Isabel, Kansas was built in 1942. It is a Gambrel roofed adobe dairy barn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1]It is a 40 by 24 feet (12.2 m × 7.3 m) barn built by James Edward Thornton and other members of the Isabel community.
A prairie barn in Greene County, Indiana, with a prominent hay hood. Note the low hanging gambrel roof. The design of a prairie barn, also known as the Western barn, reflects the iconic image of an American barn. The peak roof over the hay loft is what helps give the prairie barn its familiarity across the landscape.
Gambrel is a Norman English word, sometimes spelled gambol such as in the 1774 Boston carpenters' price book (revised 1800). Other spellings include gamerel, gamrel, gambril, gameral, gambering, cambrel, cambering, chambrel [4] referring to a wooden bar used by butchers to hang the carcasses of slaughtered animals. [1]
The Shafer Barn is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story gambrel-roofed barn that was built in 1920 near Hoxie, Kansas. It is located on County Road 50S, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of County Road 80E, in West Saline Township .
The Gothic-arch design was featured on both the front and back cover of The Book of Barns - Honor-Bilt-Already Cut [a] catalog published by Sears Roebuck in 1918. It was the most popular roof design for barns sold by Sears. [7] In 1915, Sears sold a 42-by-60-foot (13 m × 18 m) Gothic-arch barn for $1,500.
The barn was designed by Benjamin F. Johnson III, who had studied landscape architecture at Harvard University, and was designed after studying barns throughout the region to accumulate best practices in barn design into a single structure. The barn was built in 1933 and used by the family until the 1970s.
These gambrel roofed buildings were widely adopted throughout the U.S. Promoted by agricultural college experiment station, these barns had washable concrete floors. Cattle were housed at ground level in steel pipe stanchion. The hay loft above is generally ample due to the gambrel roof, which can be erected with pre fabricated trusses. Small ...