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Architect/Builder: Building Type/Style: Building Materials: vernacular Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) i u cc « This stone barn has a basically rectangular plan. The walls - about five feet up - are stone with the log portion then beginning and reaching to the eaves, The logs are very long for Spring City buildings, The west end has a large gate doubles-door large enough to drive a wagon in. This west end is open to the ridge pole, The east side is divided by a loft into two sections. The lower story is the stabling area and contains about eight stalls on the north, The upper story is the hay loft, reachable through the west gate or by the hayfork on the east gable<_ Statement of Historical Significance: D Aboriginal Americans D Agriculture aj^Architecture • D The Arts D Commerce D D D D D Communication Conservation • Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D D D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation :- Probably the most unusual barn in Spring City, certainly the only remaining one of its type. (Foundation stones still visible of the old Carison Barn, block lot 2, and the Kofford Barn, block 37, lot 3, which suggestsimilarityof floor plan but both structures are gone now). The barn is probably Scandinavian in type as no Anglos-German analogues^can be located, ;