Barn Record Roxbury
RETURN TO ‘FIND BARNS’- Building Name (Common)
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- Building Name (Historic)
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- Address
- 26 South Street, Roxbury
- Typology
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Designations
Historic Significance
Architectural description:
Barn I:
This barn was moved to this location from 22 South Street as part of a project to create a residence using the barn and the former Hamlin & Beach shoe shop, one of the town’s few surviving 19th-century commercial buildings. Rulley Bernhardt (see 16 South Street) bought the shop in 1907 and used it for a time
as his meat market. It was Bernhardt who also built the barn as a dairy barn; his daughter Mabel Bernhardt Smith (1905-92) remembered the barn raising. When Rachel Bernhardt sold the house at 22 South Street in 1955 she retained ownership of the barn and promised to move it at her expense. It later was attached to the shop, possibly in the late 1970s and certainly by the early 1990s.This barn is attached to the north end of the c. 1850 house on this property, located on the east side of South Street. Features include: 28 x 24; peak-roofed barn stands with gable ends oriented to the north and south; breezeway and greenhouse at south gable end connects barn to house; west elevation, asymmetrical arrangement of 6-pane window sash, canted lintels; north gable end, loft doors at mid level; east elevation, shed-roofed, French door arrangement (new) at southeast corner; vertical tongue-and-groove barn board; red paint with white trim.
Barn II: (c. 1995)
This goat’s shed is a relatively recent addition to this historic property. This shed is located on the rear of the property, to the east of the house (east side of South Street). The shed has a turn-out enclosed with wire fence and a garden to the south. Features include: 16 x 14; peak-roofed shed stands with gable ends to the east and west; long rear sloping roof face creates saltbox profile; primary elevation faces south, single door at west with top-hinged 6-pane window to east; door on east side opens to turn-out.
Historical significance:Connected barns tied all of the functions of a farmstead - home, hearth, workplace and barn - into a series of linked buildings. This is the"big house, little house, back house, barn” of nursery rhymes.
The term dairy barn is used as early as the 18th century (along with “cow house”). Modern dairy barns are characterized by their interior arrangements of stanchions and gutters to facilitate milking and the removal of manure. In some cases this is just a few stalls in the corner of a barn, in others it can be a large barn dedicated to that single purpose.
Field Notes
Information from a survey of Roxbury by Rachel Carley. Located in the Roxbury Local Historic District and the Roxbury Center National Register Historic District.
- Use & Accessibility
Use (Historic)
Use (Present)
Exterior Visible from Public Road?
Yes
Demolished
n/a
Location Integrity
Moved
- Environment
Related features
Environment features
Relationship to surroundings
n/a
- Typology & Materials
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Building Typology
Materials
Structural System
Roof materials
Roof type
Approximate Dimensions
Barn I: 28 x 24, Barn II: 16 x 14.
- Source
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Date Compiled
06/30/2011
Compiled By
Rachel D. Carley - CH
Sources
Carley, Rachel D., Barn Stories from Roxbury Connecticut, Roxbury Historic District Commission/Town of Roxbury/CT Commission on Culture & Tourism, 2010.
Cunningham, Jan, Roxbury, A Historic and Architectural Survey, Roxbury Historic District Commission, 1996-97.
Sexton, James, PhD; Survey Narrative of the Connecticut Barn, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, Hamden, CT, 2005, http://www.connecticutbarns.org/history.
Visser, Thomas D.,Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings, University Press of New England, 1997, 213 pages.
Local Historic District - Roxbury Historic District, 1966 & 2005:
http://www.historicdistrictsct.org - accessed 5/29/2012.Plummer, Dale S., Roxbury Center Historic District National Register Nomination No. 83001271, National Park Service, 1983.
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