The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania: Architecture & Preservation, Built 1750-1900

An illustrated look at the barns in southeastern Pennsylvania ("the hearth"), including design, construction, dating, and use of barns with a diversity of architectural forms.

For anyone who has ever admired a barn on an old country lane, this is the story of that barn and many others in Southeastern Pennsylvania, or, specifically, "the hearth," the area east of the Susquehanna River and south of the Blue Mountains.

One of the earliest—settled areas in North America, this region of the K...