Barn
Barn raising
Barn and Belgians
Ready for work
Saddle up
Hay loft and timber frame
Tack room
Wagon bay and loading dock
Collection of antique license plates
Dressed for ChristmasThis is a classic western-style barn with long, sloping shed roofs, timber-frame construction, a board-and-batten exterior, clerestory windows above the central aisle, and a cedar-shake roof. It is a working ranch barn scaled for heavy draft horses and saddle horses, providing stalls, haylofts, a tack-and-harness room, a grain room, a loafing bay and a shed bay for wagons and implements.
The barn offers four stalls off the center aisle to accommodate heavy draft horses. The tack and harness room is the heart of the barn, with stands for Western roping saddles and hooks for the harnesses and other gear necessary to operate a horse-oriented working cattle ranch.
The Douglas fir for this timber-frame barn was recycled from posts and beams salvaged from the Royal Typewriter Company’s monumental manufacturing building in Hartford, Connecticut. The barn features functional, handcrafted ironwork; door latches designed to operate when you have “an arm full of saddle;” distinctive stall doors, the star-and-circle ranch emblem on the hinges, door pulls and racks that were all specifically designed and forged for the barn.
The Comstock Castle and Co. antique wood-burning parlor stove in the tack room is a welcome sight on a frosty morning. The barn was declared a “historical barn” by the Ouray National Historical District in 1995, the year it was built.
