The Iowa Barn Foundation is pleased to bring you these fine note cards, made in Iowa, exclusively for the Iowa Barn Foundation. Four different sets of these exquisite note cards, drawn by Ken Dunker, are available. Ken created these cards and donated them to the Iowa Barn Foundation, so all proceeds go to the Iowa Barn Foundation.

Each package contains 12 note cards with envelopes. Each card is printed on is 80# "natural" (tan) card stock and measures 6 1/4 by 4 1/2 inches. Each card (shown below) is blank inside and features a barn on the front (click each card to enlarge it). The back of each card includes the barn's name and the Iowa Barn Foundation tour where it was featured.

Set 1

Set 1 includes 12 cards: 3 cards with the Meier-Dixon round barn, and 3 cards with a large log barn, which were featured on the 2002 Northeast Iowa Barn Tour. Also included in this set are 3 cards with the Bennett Barn, and 3 cards with the Kalsem barn, which were featured on the 2003 Story County Barn Tour.

Set 2

Set 2 includes 12 cards with the Handsaker barn, which was featured on the 2003 Story County Barn Tour.

Set 3

Set 3 includes 12 cards with the Mehlisch barn, which was featured on the 2005 All-State Barn Tour.

Set 4

Set 4 includes 12 cards: 3 cards with the Handsaker barn, which was featured on the 2003 Story County Barn Tour, and 3 cards with the Mehlisch barn, which was featured on the 2005 All-State Barn Tour. Also included in this set are 3 cards with the Schmidt barn, and 3 cards with the Rockafellow barn, which were featured on the 2002 All-State Barn Tour.

Set 5

Set 5 includes 12 cards: 3 cards with the Heflin barn, 3 cards with the Dodd barn, 3 cards with the Finken barn, and 3 cards with the Ellis barn. All of the barns were featured on the 2006 All-State Barn Tour.

A package of 12 note cards with envelopes is only $10, including shipping and handling, with proceeds going to the Iowa Barn Foundation’s barn restoration funds. These cards are a must-have for anyone who values Iowa’s barns and agricultural history.

Order your cards today! Send a check for $10 made payable to the Iowa Barn Foundation to:

The Iowa Barn Foundation
c/o Roxanne Mehlisch
17590 730th Avenue
Zearing, Iowa 50278
(641) 487-7690

Please allow 2 to 4 weeks for delivery.

About the Artist

Although Ken Dunker grew up in Detroit, Michigan, he often visited his mother’s family farm near Frankenmuth, Michigan. In 1970 he became an Iowan when he joined the Iowa State University faculty. After retiring from Iowa State University, Ken took a position at the Iowa Department of Transportation in the Office of Bridges and Structures, where he is involved in design policy and engineering. In 2001, after fulfilling a request for drawings of an Ames, Iowa church building for bulletin covers, Ken began drawing historic Iowa bridges. Since then Ken has taken several of the Iowa Barn Foundation’s tours and now enjoys drawing barns as well as other structures.