Unique Barns

[chai]

I am working on an article on unique/artistic/unusual barns. Does anyone know of a special, different barn or own one?
Thanks.

[pines4equines]

Not sure how unique but Falkirk is beautiful! I'm sure you can google. THey have arches over the grooming areas if it's not shown on the web site.

[Katie-Nicole]

Get a copy of the book "Ultimate Horse Barns" it's wonderful!

[VWBug]

There's the Star Barn here in Lancaster County; there was quite an effort to save it. In fact I think it was purchased and will be moved to Lebanon County. I'll google it and post a link if I find anything.

Edited to add the link.

http://www.thestarbarn.com/Links_Friends.aspx

[philosoraptor]

There's the Star Barn here in Lancaster County; there was quite an effort to save it. In fact I think it was purchased and will be moved to Lebanon County.

Ooo! I love that barn. That's the one you can see from the highway (283?), when going from Lancaster to Harrisburg, isn't it? It's beautiful !!

[VWBug]

That's the one!

I just saw it's actually next door in Dauphin County.

[KSA2]

I am working on an article on unique/artistic/unusual barns. Does anyone know of a special, different barn or own one?
Thanks.

This is one in Ontairo that has been featured in many coffee table books. It's not being used for anything just sits on the property to rot. It's actually a pentagon or hexigon shape (I don't remember how many sides it has). It's really beautiful. Over a hundred years old. Not sure if that's what you are looking for or actual horse barns being used.

Los Cedros in Scottsdale Arizona is actually breathtaking. I was there this month checking out the facilities for friends looking to rent a block of stalls for a show in Feb. Oh my goodness was this place amazing. Beautiful arena, barns with chandelears, horse pool, amazing stalls etc. I wanted to move in myself. http://www.loscedros.com/ Their website doesn't have too many pictures but im sure if you googled it more you will find some.

[tidy rabbit]

Here's one of my barns, it's an 1890's bank barn that we restored. It's not fancy but it is unique. :)

The slide show takes you through the process we went through, the last picture is what the interior looks like now. It's about 90% finished. The exterior has changed some but I don't have any current pictures of it.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/slideshow/568924376QhwtRN

[greenwave]

San Cristobal by (deceased) Mexican architect Luis Barragán is absolutely stunning. http://www.barragan-foundation.org/ It is the only 20th century major equine architectural work I know of.

Edited to add:
If you google 'louis barragan san cristobal' you get some pretty good images but I think the best are on the foundation's website (above). Navigate to 'masterpieces>san cristobal>to plans and photos'. There are some really great photos of horses in the water.

[Rayman421]

http://www.cubanewyork.us/links/empirefarms.htm

I rode and showed out of this barn in the late 70's early 80's

To my understanding the man who built it, lost his horses in a tragic fire, so built this barn to withstand any fires.

We had dirt down the aisle and it was long and wide enough to set up jump gymnastics- lacking an indoor arena, that's where we schooled in winter. Too bad there's no photos of the inside. It has a gorgeous wood staircase to the upper floors, where there used to be apartments. There is a huge blacksmith shoppe, tack room, offices and I always dreamed of being rich and re-opening it as live-in horsemanship school. I just LOVE old barns and can look at them all day. I have numerous books on them.

I hope the new owner keeps this one preserved as a barn. The ironic thing is the man who built it brought Shetlands to America- we were in QH and Appndx QH hunters at the time - I now show Shetlands.

[halla]

I am blanking on names of these, but there's a giant Victorian barn in New England somewhere that used to have big horse shows in the indoor. I think they originally bred Hackney's, and it may now be a cow farm.

The other is a modern barn with hay stacked outside. It's very pretty, if impractical. It's in the pacific northwest somewhere I think, and was in several architectural magazines.

[Foxtrot's]

There is something about old barns that speak to the soul. We don't have much old stuff up this end, and those old barns we do have are not valued and often in disrepair.

[chai]

They are all beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I am also looking for barns that have special design, interiors, artistic touches...anything that makes them different, beautifully designed or unique.
Thanks if anyone has their own barn they might share.

[IsolaBella09]

How about Peter Leone's Lionshare Farm. That barn is absolutely gorgeous.
http://lionsharefarm.com/
The new Kellogg farm, Ravenswood I believe, in Bedminster, NJ is fantastic as well. Interesting design plus great features. No website.

[hitchinmygetalong]

I am blanking on names of these, but there's a giant Victorian barn in New England somewhere that used to have big horse shows in the indoor. I think they originally bred Hackney's, and it may now be a cow farm.


Would that be Shelburne Farms in Vermont?

[cowgirljenn]

Does it need to be current barns? Longview Farms in Lee's Summit, MO had a gorgeous barn with an indoor arena with a Tiffany lamp chandelier inside. There are pictures out there I could track down. If I ever get obscenely wealthy, I'm going to build a replica of that barn (it has been turned into an elementary school now).

[Xanthoria]

The other is a modern barn with hay stacked outside. It's very pretty, if impractical. It's in the pacific northwest somewhere I think, and was in several architectural magazines.

Here it is:

Steve Sharpe's Lucky Dog Ranch hay barn designed by Zoltan Pali

http://www.archidose.org/Blog/AIA05-somis.jpg

http://www.spfanews.com/FRAMES/haybarn.html

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1412

[Bedazzle]

Well I cannot find a picture of it to save my life, but Scion Farm in Croton, OH is just breathtaking.

[two sticks]

Hummingbird nest Ranch in So. Cal is pretty spectacular..

http://www.hummingbirdnestranch.com/

[tidy rabbit]

Here's pictures of Scion Farm... http://www.pamelagrahamshowstables.com/

I did a GM clinic there last year and the place is so completely over the top, it's just amazing.

[Bedazzle]

My first horse ever was a schooling horse at Scion Farm back when it was Hartford Farm, I believe it was the late Anne Grossman who was training there at the time. I could have my facts all mixed up. However I remember being 13 years old and meeting my first horse in that amazing barn and just thinking I had gone to horsey heaven.

[kearleydk]

I'm pretty proud of my barn now very near completion.

Photos here: javascript:freshPane www.robrick.com/files/dimar/image_100.jpg','DiMar Caspians',800,600,0,0

[kearleydk]

Just go to www.DimarCaspians.com and navigate to photos>people and places.


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[Evalee Hunter]

I don't know where you are located but you could easily do an article (or a whole book!) on special barns just in this immediate area ... say within a hundred or so miles around Oxford PA.

Of course, there is the old USET barn in Gladstone, NJ. Amazing.

The Strouds (Alison Stroud competes in combined driving) of Stroud Water Research have a bank barn that has been renovated in a way that is just breath-taking. Spectacular.

One of the barns (and the indoor) at Phillip Dutton's True Prospect Farm (formerly Five Star Farm) is so beautiful I always thought it could easily be a church. I used to just stand there & look up in awe.

The stallion barn at Hilltop Farm in Coloro, MD is very special & yet has some of the most practical features I have ever seen.

Each of the training barns at Fair Hill Training Center (MD) is amazing - these are unique, architecturally designed barns. In fact, several were designed by Meredith Clark's father, an architect. (Meredith posts on COTH under her own name.) Fair Hill Training Center barns could be an article or book all by themselves. Edited to add: Barbaro lived at Fair Hill Training Center in Michael Matz's barn, which was designed by Meredith's dad. Some of the most famous race horses on earth live in those barns in Fair Hill.

There is a barn at St. Anthony's in the Hills on the PA/DE border near Hockessin, DE that I saw once & was quite impressed with. I don't know the history of the barn or, really, the history of the land there but I think the whole thing was donated to a Catholic church which is trying to preserve it & make use of it.

Of course, we have a barn that we built that we think is very special & people who enter it usually say something along the lines of, "Wow, this is a really nice barn!" but, truthfully, it is just a regular barn compared to the ones mentioined above.