Barneveld Family Farm and Historic Stone Barn Preserved



This view from the road on the west shows the south facing exposure of the Thomas Stone barn. Across the lower level are ten doors and a window. The doors were “Dutch” and included transoms. About two thirds of the way up in the middle of the western half of the south facing side are the numbers, “1881.”



David Harold Thomas is known to his friends as Harold, but was named after his father who gave up a burgeoning legal career in Colorado to come back and farm, thus “saving” the landmark barn his father, Walter, built in 1881. Harold and his family still raise crops and feed out steers. They fill the barn with hay every season.



This artist’s rendering of the north face of the Thomas Stone barn shows the original wooden doors which slide open on the inside of the 10’x11’ drive through openings. This view of the barn is visible from Highway 18/151 just west of Barneveld. The dormers are not original and will be eliminated when the new roof is put on this summer.