The selling picture for this property was the picturesque red barn on the property. A friend of mine had mentioned early on that she wanted to take her family photos there.. and at the beginning we jokingly talked about the venue for weddings etc. Its an old old barn.. probably the same red lead paint that was used on the house originally chips off. The back middle barn door doesn’t close. And it is built on rock … there is no real foundation. From what I understand, this type of foundation is very common on the East Coast… not so common on the West Coast, where we are more prone to earthquakes. However, thankfully, we are not in the “fault” area. So this barn has been around for 80 years.. The barn is broken up into four sections:
- The section closest to the road is wide open, and arguably the most dilapidated. It was used to store several hundred gallons of unleaded paint, old bikes, old machinery parts, and many other unidentified objects. There is a section in the back that looks like it could fall in, if we don’t shore it up soon. Through this side section is a little secret hiding place where pictures, and trophies and old records were stored. WE still have yet to go through those.. that will have to be for a later post.
- The next section in was all locked up when we walked through the properties the first several times. And even when we closed on the house, no keys were provided for the lock on the door. We thought for sure this mean that gold or other millions were stored here, but no, my husband found that it was more storage.
- The next section in was th largest portion of the barn. The back door is completely falling off, so I guess the cows could get in if they wanted to, but they don’t seem to have much interest. This was the part of the barn that my husband was the most interested in.. all the tools
- The farthest right side took awhile to find the keys as well, but when we opened it up, the inside had been completely redone with OSB. And a very large propane tank, plus a few other storage items. A couple of contractors that we’ve had come through on the property guess that, in some point of recent history, this side of the barn was used to grow cannabis.