Barns, STONE AND FRAME BANK BARN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania is home to a wide variety of barn styles, many reflecting the German immigrants who built farms in the state during the late 1700s and 1800s. This unusual barn near Mifflin in Juniata County was partly constructed of stone and notched with ventilation slits. It features triple roof ventilators and an overhanging front known as a forebay which shelters the livestock stalls. Thousands of these sturdy bank barns remain on dairy farms throughout the Pennsylvania countryside today, most of them still in use after more than a century, a testament to the longevity of robust oak beams and practical German barn design.
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