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Wineck Barn

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1935
  • Wineck Barn (Alison K. Hoagland)
  • Wineck Barn (Jet Lowe)

All of the colony barns were built to the same plan, 32 feet by 32 feet by 32 feet high, and the Wineck Barn is a good example. The lower portion of the walls is constructed of logs sawn flat on three sides, lapped and butted at the corners. Above that is a band of vertical boards to the cornice and horizontal boards in the gables. The gambrel roof is framed with scissor trusses. Despite its appealing form, the plan of the standard colony barn was widely criticized as being too small and inefficiently partitioned. In addition foundations were small pilings that soon deteriorated.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Alison K. Hoagland
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What's Nearby

Evan Jones House
Rebarchek Farm
Colony Village
Patten Farm
MacNevin and Hesse-Smith Houses

Citation

Alison K. Hoagland, "Wineck Barn", [Palmer, Alaska], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AK-01-SC089.1.

Print Source

Buildings of Alaska, Alison K. Hoagland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 133-133.

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