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| How many barns are there in Vermont? What kind of condition are they in? Are we losing significant numbers each year? What can be done to preserve these icons of our history and landscape? The goal of the Vermont Barn Census is to carry out, for the first time, a statewide census of Vermont’s barns that will lay the foundation for further efforts to preserve them. |
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The project will recruit volunteers in all of Vermont’s 251 towns to identify barns and other agricultural outbuildings in their communities. The Barn Census will occur mainly over several highly publicized weekends in the summer and fall of 2008 and spring and fall of 2009. Students from elementary to high school will be welcomed to participate. Volunteers will take a photo and some notes about barn features, history, use and condition in the field, and then submit the data over the web.
The first Barn Census weekend will be August 2-3, 2008. Sign up for the Barn Census e-mail list and check back on our website in July for further information on how to participate. Contact Mike Plummer via email at Mike.Plummer@state.vt.us or at (802) 828-1220.
Join us for 3 Barn Census Workshops
at Vermont History Expo
Tunbridge World’s Fair Grounds Tunbridge, Vermont
Saturday, June 21, 2008
11 am, 2 pm, and 3 pm
www.vermonthistory.org |
11 am Understanding the Structure of Historic Barns- Jan Lewandoski, Internationally renowned Timber Framer, Traditional Building, Greensboro Bend, Vermont
2 pm The History and Architecture of Barns and other Agricultural Outbuildings- Prof. Thomas Visser, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Program at UVM, and author of
Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
3 pm How You Can Inventory Barns for the Vermont Barn Census – Nancy Boone, State Architectural Historian, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
5 pm – 6:30 pm An Open Barn Reception for Barn Census volunteers and guests- Justin Smith Morrill Homestead, Strafford, VT. Don’t miss this exquisite collection of historic barns and the newly reconstructed barn and education center at the Morrill Homestead.
Cost: Admission to History Expo Adults: $10 and children- 5-18 $5; No additional cost to attend the Barn Census workshops. Visit www.vermonthistory.org for full details on History Expo. This exciting event attracts thousands of people annually. If you plan to attend the workshops please contact us via email at histwininc@valley.net or telephone (802) 674-6752 to register no later than June 19.
www.historicvermont.org www.preservationworks.org
A Project of the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, UVM Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, and Historic Windsor’s Preservation Education Institute, Save Vermont Barns, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, and Preservation Trust of Vermont
This project is funded by a Preserve America Grant through the National Park Service to the
State of Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.
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