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The Preservation Massachusetts Barn Task Force website is being revamped and expanded. Please make use of the matireals that are already here and be sure to check back later in 2009 to see our new site! 

If you have questions or need assistance that goes beyond the resources listed here, feel free to contact a volunteer member of the Barn Task Force committee or one of the Massachusetts Circuit Riders.  For contact information on the Circuit Riders, please click here.

A barn is an expression of the people who built it. When we lose one, we’ve lost a part of our history, a part of ourselves.

Historic barns are elements of the Massachusetts rural countryside and a unique part of America.  M. J. Auer, US Department of the Interior noted, “From the days when Thomas Jefferson envisioned the new republic as a nation dependent on citizen-farmers for its stability and freedom, the family farm has been a vital image in the American consciousness. The main structure of farms, barns evoke a sense of tradition and security, of closeness to the land and community and with the people who built them, and make the past present. In imagination they represent a whole way of life.”