Horse Barn
A horse barn generally contains box stalls for horses, and a tack room for saddles, harnesses, and other equipment. Larger barns sometimes have stalls arranged in rows with an aisle between, and some also have extended roofs for shade and wash rooms. Other characteristic features include divided ("Dutch") doors and/or small windows to provide light and ventilation. Most freestanding horse barns found in Pennsylvania postdate 1960, since historically horses would often be stabled in a larger barn or carriage house. Horse barns often appear on Plain Sect farms and on farms where horses are boarded or bred.
Horse Barn, Chester County, mid to late twentieth century
Note
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- 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
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- Privy
- Roadside Stand
- Root Cellar
- Scale House
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- Silo
- Smokehouse
- Spray Shed
- Springhouse
- Summer Kitchen
- Wagon Shed
- Wash House
- Wood Shed
- Worker Housing
- Workshop
- Landscape Elements
- Archaeological Features