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| The Cline Barn | |||
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Standing on Winters Road is a stone arch, fore bay Pennsylvania bank barn of rare and unusual construction. Germanic in nature, but exhibiting English construction techniques, it dates from circa 1800-1810. Built primarily of limestone, it has 4 arches on its south wall opening into the fore bay. The north side has a bridge with matching arches leading into the third floor hayloft. Under the arches of the ramp is a doorway leading to the second floor threshing area and under the ramp itself is a large root cellar of barrel-vaulted construction. Nearly all of the timbers in the barn, including the roof rafters, are hand hewn white oak logs. The flooring has 2" thick oak planks and are not nailed, but actually held down with wooden pegs or "tree nails." Another unusual feature is the numerous louvered ventilators in the exterior walls. The barn is part of a group of buildings including an 18th century stone house, wagon sheds, corncribs and a mill build in 1786, which could be called an 18th century industrial park. By Steve Babinsky |
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