Old Barns: In Trouble Before the Building Boom

Extraordinary efforts to save a handful of old barns have put a spotlight on these otherwise humble structures. There is a general sense that the state is losing its barns, but there is little agreement on how many still exist and which ones ought to be preserved.

In the first of an occasional series of reports on old barns, Humanities reporter Kevin Gardner finds that the threat posed by development oversimplifies the history of these orphaned farm buildings.