Among the major impressions given by well maintained historic barns are those of strength, solidity and permanence. Unlike historic residential, industrial and commercial buildings,barns generally have few openings for windows and doors. Yet the openings found in barns are important both to their functioning and to their appearance. Typically, large wagon doorways and openings to the hayloft are among the most striking features on barns. Not as prominent as these large openings,but important from a functional perspective, are the ventilator slits found on many barns. With important exceptions dairy barns, for example, window sare few, and are normally small. The relative absence of openings for window sand doors adds to the overall impression of massiveness and solidity conveyed by many historic barns, and is one of the reasons why they often appearto be larger than they are.

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