Barn # 160 Spath Barn (currently Ireland Farms)
Carlsborg
Southeast corner of Kitchen Dick and Spath Road
Self-serve fresh eggs in season. Herbs. Specialty crops. Chickens. Horses. Steers. Woodworking.
From owner Martha Ireland: "You wouldn't know it from the outside, but our barn dates to the 1880s, as part of the original [Alois and Barbara] Spath homestead. According to stories we've been told, the Spath family later moved to the east side of Sequim, leaving behind the road named in their honor. The barn has changed over the years. For example, the concrete block milk house that protrudes on the west side isn't there in early pictures of the Spath Farm. For a time it was a grade A dairy. It was originally much taller and wider, extending west at least half-way across the current corral. Sometime in the late 1960s to 1970s, it collapsed and was taken off the tax rolls. It was rebuilt smaller, and five run-in horse stalls were added on the east side, giving it a somewhat lop-sided appearance. Inside, a couple huge support timbers are visible that are probably from the original barn. Funny thing: We bought this place in late 1988. Several years later, my husband saw a county appraiser out front with a puzzled look on her face. Pointing to each building in turn, she said, 'That's the house, that's the garage, but what is that?' That's when we discovered that the barn wasn't put back on the tax roll after it was rebuilt."
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This barn has been painted, and the art is available for you to own. Click on a picture for more information.
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