On a Sunday spin in the country, one of the scenic delights used to be the handsomely weather-beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New ...

Most people see a rustic, weathered old barn, its red coat faded by sun and wind, its paint chipped in a perfect mosaic of time and history, and they think, How beautiful. I look at the same barn and ...

Reporting from Chenoa, Ill. — For years Pat Huth came home from vacation with photos she’d taken of barns she admired on her journeys, but she never thought to take any of the ones around her home in ...