Firestone Barn Being Dismantled at Its Original Site, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1983
THF628369 / Firestone Barn Being Dismantled at Its Original Site, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1983 / detail
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Artifact Overview
In 1983, Greenfield Village acquired the Firestone family's 19th-century farmhouse and barn in eastern Ohio. After careful documentation and disassembly, workers shipped the structures' original components to Dearborn, Michigan. There, craftsmen recreated architectural elements of the barn that had been replaced or drastically altered over the years, made repairs, and reconstructed the building in time for its dedication on June 29, 1985.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Slide (Photograph)
Subject Date
1983
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
EI.1929.7343
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 2 in
Width: 2 in
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The Firestone barn is a Pennsylvania-German bank barn, an American barn type with Swiss origins. They are called bank barns because the barn is built into a bank, allowing wagons to be driven into the upper floor. Bank barns combined multiple farm functions under a single roof. Livestock were kept in the lower floor, crops on the upper floor.