VANCOUVER, Wash. – Old barns have special appeal for Jim Riedl. There’s history. The economic value of hand-hewn beams fashioned from old-growth timber. And, Riedl says, there’s mystery. A darkened, ...

Photo credit: Photo taken in 1933 of the Kandt-Domann farmstead barn in Dickinson County, Kansas. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress.) Along every rural road there is at least one old barn, either ...

Former Times-Reporter staff writer Renee Brown Parker takes us on a personal journey of replacing the family’s nearly 100-year-old barn with a new one. Old bank barns are familiar sights around here.

Whether it evokes the past, or just looks picturesque, the sight of a big red barn beside a farmhouse can tug at the heartstrings. “The nostalgia is so strong … because someone’s great grandpa built ...

Members of the Gateway Redevelopment Group had been trying without success to find old barn siding to use on its new storage building when they spotted an ad in the Quad-City Times seeking to sell the ...