Audubon, Pa., barn, house, outhouse: House and barn are on National Park property, Walnut hill, also known as Pawling/Wetherill estate. Barn built 1826 and addition in 1845. No dates...

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

House and barn are on National Park property, Walnut hill, also known as Pawling/Wetherill estate. Barn built 1826 and addition in 1845. No dates for house and outhouse. Thought some might find the barn interesting since it is quite different from those you have posted.

Barn-often has vultures roosting on roof

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One end of house in ruins

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Outhouse

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

alliebess wrote:

House and barn are on National Park property, Walnut hill, also known as Pawling/Wetherill estate. Barn built 1826 and addition in 1845. No dates for house and outhouse. Thought some might find the barn interesting since it is quite different from those you have posted.

Barn is very different and quite interesting. Usually they are wood.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

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tejaswrangler Loc: South Texas

alliebess wrote:

House and barn are on National Park property, Walnut hill, also known as Pawling/Wetherill estate. Barn built 1826 and addition in 1845. No dates for house and outhouse. Thought some might find the barn interesting since it is quite different from those you have posted.

alliebess, excellent pictures, good composition. Pictures like these always make you wish that walls could talk. Thanks for sharing. :thumbup: Tejaswrangler :)

LarryN Loc: Portland OR & Carbondale, CO

Do you have any idea as to how the barn was used? It has many more windows than barns I see from the period. It is a wonderful work of craftmanship.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Interesting--not many stone barns in my area.

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

LarryN wrote:

Do you have any idea as to how the barn was used? It has many more windows than barns I see from the period. It is a wonderful work of craftmanship.

As far as I know it was used to house animals and the upper level, which has an entrance on the other side with an earth ramp leading to the second level, was used to store hay. As to the windows, I have no information.

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

tejaswrangler wrote:

alliebess, excellent pictures, good composition. Pictures like these always make you wish that walls could talk. Thanks for sharing. :thumbup: Tejaswrangler :)

Thank you! The house and barn fascinate me. I grew up on a farm so I'm particularly fascinated with the barn. You can't enter it, but there is some farm equipment on exhibit outside (behind a wire fence which makes photography difficult).

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

Thanks for the look! Lived in Trooper and went to Audubon Elementary; both when God was a baby. Thanks for your post!!

Susan yamakawa

The barn almost looks like a college dorm 😄

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

Susan yamakawa wrote:

The barn almost looks like a college dorm 😄

I hadn't thought of that, but there is a really ugly (to me) one one the campus of Bryn Mawr College not too far away. And the Pawlings/Wetherill barn evidently housed large numbers of animals, so in effect it was a dorm.

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

alliebess wrote:

As far as I know it was used to house animals and the upper level, which has an entrance on the other side with an earth ramp leading to the second level, was used to store hay. As to the windows, I have no information.

Driving through Lancaster Co. Saturday I saw a stone barn with three levels of windows so I'm wondering if the windows serve to relieve weight on the heavy masonry walls. I couldn't get a photo of the Lancaster Co. barn; I was driving on the turnpike - no place to quickly pull off.

xxredbeardxx Loc: San Clemente CA.

alliebess wrote:

House and barn are on National Park property, Walnut hill, also known as Pawling/Wetherill estate. Barn built 1826 and addition in 1845. No dates for house and outhouse. Thought some might find the barn interesting since it is quite different from those you have posted.

Very interesting.
I'm guessing those walls have some interesting stories.
Even the outhouse.. haa.

Thanks for sharing these.

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vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

The barn looks like it was built to last. I'd love to see more with maybe some interior shots through a window if it's not possible to enter. Can't imagine what it must have been like to trek through the cold and snow to use the outhouse. Thanks for sharing this most intersting series. Very nice.

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

vicksart wrote:

The barn looks like it was built to last. I'd love to see more with maybe some interior shots through a window if it's not possible to enter. Can't imagine what it must have been like to trek through the cold and snow to use the outhouse. Thanks for sharing this most intersting series. Very nice.

Unfortunately, there is a fence around the whole building so there is no way to get close - or I'd be there with my nose and camera poking into the windows.