Bob Jensen's Barn Pictures Set 03
Bob Jensen at Trinity University
Swea City, Iowa --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swea_City,_Iowa
My wheeling and
dealing (farms and horses) Grandfather Dourte in Swea City ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/FamilyHistory/SweaCity/Dourte.htm
My hobo-feeding Grandmother Dourte in Swea
City ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/max01.htm
The kindly
Director of the Swea City Historical Society, Lavonne Geerdes, sent me a
photograph taken
a couple of weeks ago near the southwest edge of Swea City. I spent many days in
this home built by
my grandfather in the late 1800s. My mother, Irene, was the youngest of my
grandparents' six Dourte children.
She was born in the house below in 1915 and lived there until marrying my father
in 1937.
I spent a lot of days in this house while growing up as a child.
On hot summer evenings we sat on the front porch and sipped on lemonade with
neighbors passing by.
My mother eventually sold the house when my grandmother died in 1968.
About 300
yards west, across a huge apple orchard, my grandfather had previously built a
barn that is now torn down.
It's very common in Iowa to tear down the old farm buildings and restore the
ground raising crops.
I remember my grandfather's old dairy barn quite well even though he had sold
this barn to a man named Northern before I was born.
When I was seven years old I fell head first from the hay mow to the cement
floor of the milking parlor.
For quite a while I was knocked out cold and can recall the enormous lump that
formed on my forehead.
Mr. Northern restored me back to life with cold water.
But about
three miles east of the above house there's a barn exactly like the one my
grandfather had built near the above town house.
However, my grandfather's silo was not like the leaning tower of Piza.
Lavonne Geerdes tells me that there are running bets on in Swea City on when the above silo east of twon will come tumbling down.
Sugar Hill, New Hampshire ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Hill,_New_Hampshire
Now my wife
and I are retired in a village called Sugar Hill in the White Mountains of New
Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
About a half
mile down the road from our cottage was a historic Inn called The Homestead
I wrote a story about the The Homestead after it was torn down in 2015 ---
Part 1 of the History of the Homestead Inn Torn Down in 2015
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/Homestead/Set01/Set01.htm
Part 2 of the History of the Homestead Inn
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Hotels/Homestead/Set02/Set02.htm
The big red
barn behind the Homestead Inn was not demolished.
It remains today and houses a thriving gift shop and museum called the Sugar
Hill Sampler ---
http://www.sugarhillsampler.com/
Just down
Route 117 about a mile east from the Sampler is the historic Iris Farm having
spectacular mountain views
About two
miles northwest of our cottage on a farm road called Lovers Lane is this
historic barn.
Mt. Lafayette and Cannon Mountain are in the background.
Down the road about two miles from our cottage not far from the Robert Frost
Musium
The Franconia Inn has a riding stable and a barn
My own barn
alongside a golf course is small, simple, and historic.
It was once a power house for a large resort that was torn down in 1973 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/CottageHistory/Hotel/Brochure/Brochure1900.htm
Beside my barn
there the resort's casino and bowling alley once stood beside the golf course.
About 10 miles
north from our cottage is the Littleton Regional Hospital in the country.
A short distance from the hospital I took these pictures of a nice barn.
Below is a
montage of New England barns that I admire.
Bob Jensen's Set 01 of Barn
Photographs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Barns\Set01\BarnsSet01.htm
Tennie Toussaint Photographs (Barn Raisings
in Vermont in the Early 1900s) ---
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=tennietoussaint&title=Tennie
Toussaint Photographs
Muster Field
Farm Museum (University of New Hampshire project to preserve old barns) ---
http://www.musterfieldfarm.com/preserving-old-barns
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- History of New Hampshire Barns
- Architectural Features
- Successfully Preserved Barns
- Structural Preservation
- Important Building Jacking Cautions
- Foundations and Structural Repair
- Building Maintenance
- Disassembling and Reassembling a Barn
- Author's Notes
- Appendix 1 - The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation
- Appendix 2 - Resources Used and Reference Directory for Protecting Historical Barns
Photographs of New Hampshire's Historical Barns ---
Click Here
https://www.google.ca/search?q=New+Hampshire+"Historical+Barns"&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=a6hKU_SSG6io2wWwrYGYBA&ved=0CFgQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=497&dpr=1.25
New
Hampshire Division of Historical Resources ---
http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/programs/state_reg_list_details.htm
There are some historic New Hampshire barn photographs
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Bob Jensen's
photo set on White Mountain Hiking Trails ---
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/HikingTrails/Set01/HikingTrailsSet01.htm
On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
Bob
Jensen's Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Our
address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/