File:Big John Farm Limestone Bank Barn wide view.jpg

DescriptionBig John Farm Limestone Bank Barn wide view.jpg	English: Big John Farm Limestone Bank Barn This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 90001576.
Date	6 March 2021, 16:29:33
Source	Own work
Author	SharonPapierdreams

Camera location	38° 40′ 07″ N, 96° 26′ 53″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	38.668611; -96.448056

The barn is built into an earthen rise that runs approximately from east to west. The barn measures seventy-six feet from east to west and forty feet from north to south and measures forty feet to the peak. The stone walls are two feet thick. The barn is framed with an unusual double truss design made of native oak. Bank barns are commonly associated with Amish farms in Pennsylvania but are frequently found in other parts of the country. This is an old building type that has Western European antecedents. The Big John Farm Limestone Bank Barn is one of few extant bank barns in Morris County, Kansas. The internal double truss design supports the roof, the load bearing, limestone walls are built around it. This type of construction has not been found in any other extant Morris County bank barns. The barn stands as the only remaining building that comprised the Morris County Poor Farm.

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