Mapleleaf Dairy Farm Pamm Cooper, UConn Home & Garden Education Center One of the more familiar barns in Connecticut are the post and beam ... stories and features a gambrel roof design.

In the first half of the twentieth century, many barns were built with gambrel and hipped roofs, which allow more space to house hay. Barns are mostly painted red, and this could be because the ...

From the outside, this home appears to be a modern suburban Dutch Gambrel with attached two-car garage, but the interior bespeaks an earlier time with its post-and-beam construction. The rough ...

As dairy farming became more popular in the second half of the 19th Century, barns were built with two levels, and the gable roof opened into a roomier gambrel-style roof. According to the Kane ...

Large boulders sit on the side of the dirt road in the foreground. A gambrel roof barn stands in the middle of the field behind the post and wire fence next to the road. A small village spreads out in ...