Barns, Sheds and Outbuildings: Placement, Design and Construction

House and Garden Remodeling Guide
“an 1881 book of plans and instructions for building barns, poultry houses, piggeries, carriage houses, dog kennels, bird houses, etc.”


Book Description
Although it harks from a time before power tools, electricity, and gasoline, this book abounds in simple ideas that rural householders still find useful today.Barns, poultry houses, piggeries, corn cribs, ice houses, spring houses, granaries, smokehouses, root cellars and even kennels and birdhouses are included in this fascinating compendium from days gone by.


From the Publisher
Although it dates from a time before power tools, electricity, and gasoline, this book abounds in simple ideas that rural householders and farmers find useful today. Barns, poultry houses, piggeries, corn cribs, ice houses, spring houses, granaries, smoke houses, root cellars and even kennels and birdhouses are includes in this fascinating compendium from days gone by.


Excerpted from Barns, Sheds & Outbuildings (c)1995. Reprinted by permission, all rights reserved
An extraordinary mass and variety of know-how has gone into the planning of these simple buildings ... real, practical understanding not only of materials and construction but also of farming and farm economics, weather, geography, history and especially of the animals of the farm. (Foreword)


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Though the book is intended as an instruction manual of basic designs, I found it reasonable to sit right down and read the whole thing through as if it were a novel, which it sort of is. The pay scales are a little off for today's labor market, though; a dollar a day is what they paid then.


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