Combination Structure
Often, resourceful farm people combined functions in a single outbuilding. The possibilities are quite varied, including such combinations as wood house/smokehouse, summer kitchen/smokehouse, corncrib/machine shed, or hog house/chicken coop.
Combination Machine Shed/Corn Crib, Columbia County, c. 1945.
Combination Spring House and Summer Kitchen, Adams County, c. 1875.
Combination Machine Shed, Corn Crib, and Poultry Housing, Lycoming County, c. 1890.
Combination garage and granary, Lycoming County, early twentieth century.
Note
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Pages in this Section
- Overview
- House Types
- Barn Types
- Barn Features
- Outbuilding Types
- Overview
- Bake Oven
- Butcher House
- Carriage House
- Cider House
- Combination Structure
- Cook House
- Corn Crib
- Dryhouse
- Fruit Cold Storage
- Garage
- Grain Bin
- Granary
- Greenhouse
- Hay Drying Shed
- Hog House
- Horse Barn
- Ice House
- Machine Shed
- Maple Sugar House
- Milk House
- Packing House
- Potato Storage Cellar
- Poultry Housing
- Privy
- Roadside Stand
- Root Cellar
- Scale House
- Shed
- Silo
- Smokehouse
- Spray Shed
- Springhouse
- Summer Kitchen
- Wagon Shed
- Wash House
- Wood Shed
- Worker Housing
- Workshop
- Landscape Elements
- Archaeological Features