Various articles and Web sites devoted to barn preservation and farming history are listed below. In addition, we've provided links to some of Iowa’s farming/barn museums, as well as links to other Iowa barns on the Web.

Preservation and History

National Park Service: The Preservation of Historic Barns

The Old House Web: Historic Barns

History of the Sears barns manufactured by the Gordon-Van Tine Company of Davenport, Iowa

Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland

Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

Iowa Public Television “Living in Iowa” special, Saving Iowa’s Barns

Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Barns: Stories in Wood and Stone

Iowa Museums

Trimble-Parker Historic District in Bloomfield, Iowa (Davis County)

Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home and Museum (Floyd County)

Norman Borlaug Boyhood Farm (Howard County)

Barn Museum and Communal Agriculture Museum in South Amana, Iowa (Iowa County)

Nelson Pioneer Farm and Museum in Oskaloosa, Iowa (Mahaska County)

Living History Farms in Des Moines, Iowa (Polk County)

The Ramsey Farm at Lesanville, Iowa (Ringgold County)

Carstens 1880 Farmstead in Shelby, Iowa (Shelby County)

Iowa Barns on the Web

Humanities Iowa’s Barns of Iowa poster

Barns of Clinton and Jackson Counties

Slayton Farms Round Barn in Iowa Falls, Iowa (Hardin County)

Wickfield Round Barn in Cantril, Iowa (Van Buren County)

The Ramsey Farm at Lesanville, Iowa (Ringgold County)

Sterler Barn at Hawkeye Point, Iowa’s highest point (1670 feet), in Sibley, Iowa (Osceola County)

Historic Barns of Iowa State (Story County)

Maxheim Photography’s Round Barns of Iowa

Round Barns and Covered Bridges

The Dairy Barn Bed and Breakfast in Ionia, Iowa (Chickasaw County)

Marvin Cone's painting entitled “Old Iowa Barn” at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art