| Once prominent landmarks that dotted
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| | masses in rural areas. People starting
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| rural America, barns are vanishing at an
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| | living in barns in the 1960's, adaptive
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| alarming rate. Known as one of the
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| | reuse saved many barns from decay. In the
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| earliest forms of architecture in
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| | 1970's barn wood was a decorating rage
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| colonial times through the industrial
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| | and many barns were destroyed after their
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| revolution, these icons represent and
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| | weathered siding was removed for suburban
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| record our agrarian roots. As time
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| | family rooms. Hand-hewn beams were cut up
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| marches on and the natural materials that
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| | for fireplaces and wood stoves.Each
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| barns are constructed of decay, each year
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| | summer as I drive through familiar
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| we loose an important part of our
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| | farming areas, more barns are gone. The
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| collective past.Large corporate farms
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| | landscape is different and lonely without
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| dominate American agriculture today.
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| | them. They were a barometer of
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| These mega-farms spawn large metal and
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| | prosperity, you could tell the economic
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| fiberglass buildings that might be called
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| | viability of a farm and a region by how
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| barns, but are far removed from real
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| | well the barns were kept. Without the
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| barns. Real barns came in many sizes,
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| | icons I now get lost, no more red barn to
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| types and styles. There were livestock,
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| | remind me to turn left. The yellow
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| machinery, milking and hay barns. Round,
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| | windows of milking parlors replaced with
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| octagonal and rectangular barns. Log,
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| | vast pole buildings with fiberglass
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| colonial and prairie style barns. Big and
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| | skylights. We need to save the vanishing
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| small, red, white colored, cedar shingled
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| | barns. The National Trust and Successful
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| and metal roofed. There was a barn for
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| | Farming Magazine have a program called
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| every need and occasion. Most featured
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| | Barn Again! that is helping to save these
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| large rolling doors, single-paned windows
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| | important architectural icons.Mark Nash's
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| and multiple levels. Nooks and crannies
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| | fourth real estate book, "1001 Tips for
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| were homes to barn owls, oiling cans and
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| | Buying and Selling a Home" (2005), and
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| farm tools.Barns were everywhere in the
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| | working as a real estate broker in
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| rural landscape and used as landmarks for
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| | Chicago are the foundation for his
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| strangers to get around the countryside.
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| | consumer-centric real estate perspective
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| "Take a left at the red barn" was common
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| | which has been featured on ABC-TV,
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| in prairie and ranching driving
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| | Associated Press,CBS The Early Show,
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| directions. Barns became billboards in
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| | Bloomberg TV, Bottom Line Magazine.
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| the early 1900's advertising to the
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