Mystery Barns
Here are barn pictures without information, and barn information without pictures. Can you help fill in the missing pieces? Your help will be greatly appreciated by all barn lovers everywhere.
Orphan Pictures
These barn pictures have not been identified. Click on the image for larger picture(s). If you recognize the barn please let us know where the barn is (or was) located.
 Photo from the MAC exhibit |
 Unidentified Barns by Harriet Fish |
 Palo Alto, probably near the south end of Youngquist |
 Somewhere on Hooker? |
 Agnew? |
 Somewhere on Old Olympic, seen from Towne? |
 From Sequim-Dungeness at Port Williams? |
Invisible Barns
These are barns that are known to have existed, but there are no pictures of them in this collection. If you have a photo you would be willing to share, or know anything more about these barns, let us know.
Barn Number 32: Evergreen Farm Main Barn
 This barn used to be on the west side of Fifth Avenue, south of Old Olympic Highway. It was a large barn with three cupolas next to the existing carriage house. It was built around 1911 and razed in the mid '70s. See Barn 15 for more information. |
| Barn Number 75: Champion Homestead
A nice barn still standing on the north side of Quail Run, east of O'Brien. It was the original homestead of the Edwin Champion family, on land purchased around 1900. The farm later passed to his daughter Lenora Hope. I don't know if this is the original barn (it's still in good condition), or a later build. The house on the property dates to 1932. |
| Barn Number 185: White/Helseth Barn
This is a large barn with a metal rooff on the west side of Hooker, north of Olson Road. |
Barn Number 246: Gierin Farm Cooling Tower
 This is a fairly well-known cooling tower on the north side of Port Williams Road, east of Brown. The barn used to be between the tower and the house. |
| Barn Number 281: Matriotti Barn
The first Matriotti here was Louis Matriotti, from Italy. He had a dairy farm and home at the dogleg of Old Olympic Highway, between Carlsborg Road and McLeay. For a while (starting around 1940) there was a small grocery and gas station on the property, which old- timers still call "Matriotti's Corner". |
| Barn Number 297: Olson Farm
Harriet Fish places this barn in the Lost Mountain area, possibly somewhere on Olson Road. |
| Barn Number 304: Soren Pedersen Barn
This old barn was located on the property that is now the Skyridge Golf Course, Old Olympic at Cays Road. Built by the Heath brothers in 1910, bought by the Pedersons in 1950, re-roofed and otherwise refurbished in 1960, and destroyed in 1996. |
| Barn Number 306: Louis Sofie Barn
The barn was somewhere at the west end of Paradise, off of Palo Alto. It was built in the late 1800s and blew down around 1990. The last owner (while it stood) was Louis Sofie. |
| Barn Number 312: Neuharth Winery
This was an old dairy barn built in 1933 by Frank Blair. In 1979 it was bought by Gene and Maria Neuharth, and housed the original Neuharth/Olympic Cellars winery until it was razed in 1997 for the bypass. |
Barn Number 314: Parkhurst Barn
 The Parkhurst family owned property along Blue Mountain road, including these old cabins. Harriet Fish published a photograph of the Parkhurst barn, but it doesn't match any building near there now. |
| Barn Number 315: Burton/Forrest Barn
This barn was on the west side of Carlsborg, north of Spath (adjacent to the rail line). Originally it serviced the Bob Burton dairy, then came to Marjorie Forrest (possibly around 1949, when the house was built). The barn was destroyed in the storms of 1996, and the house came down in 2010. |
| Barn Number 317: Edgington Barn
The barn was built by the Edgington family between 1905 and 1930, on the west side of 5th just south of St. Lukes (where the fire station is now). There was a little milk house next to it. |
| Barn Number 318: Laughing Barn
Harriet Fish and others have published photographs of this barn that used to be near the corner of Kitchen Dick and Lotzgesell Road, at Voice of America. |
Barn Number 319: Fortman/Kinnaman Farm
 I think I have the right location for this, on the south side of Lotzgesell Road just east of Holgerson. The property belonged to James and Pauline Fortman Kinnaman in the 1970s, which corresponds to dates given in Pauline's obituary. This little shell of a cabin is all that remains. |
Barn Number 322: Bell Barn at Cedarbrook Lavendar Farm
 Currently the site of Cedarbrook Lavender Farm. The Bell House Gift Shop is in an historic 100 year old farmhouse built by John Bell, who came to Sequim in the late 1800's from Scotland. The barn that went with the house, built by a son of John Bell around 1915, has been recycled. |
Barn Number 324: Brazil Barn
 The old double-hip house appears abandoned. There is a half-barn to the east, and one or more smaller buildings to the south. This was the site of the George Brazil barn, built in the late 1920s and destroyed in 1996. There is a bunch of rubble among the clump of weeds and small trees to the west of the house, which is all that remains of the barn. Brazil never married and so willed his land to his neighbor, Morris Quinn. |
| Barn Number 328: Weed Barn
This Agnew barn of Harry Holland Weed was built around 1926 to hold horses and other necessities. Destroyed in 1996. The Lazy J Tree farm is just to the north of it. |
| Barn Number 329: Orum Medsker Barn
The barn stood near an irrigation canal, south-east of Sunland. It was built in 1924, destroyed in 1996. |
| Barn Number 330: Tague Barn
Built in the 1920s, gone by 1998. Home Depot now occupies the spot. |
| Barn Number 331: Woodcock Barn
Built prior to 1915 next to the Woodcock family home, on the south side of Woodcock west of the river. The house is still standing, but the barn was blown down in 1970. |
| Barn Number 332: Rosecity Guernsey Dairy Barn
Originally part of the Max Schmuck farm (1917-1959). The 12,000 square-foot barn was built in 1927, bought by the Griffiths in 1959 and torn down in 1974. It stood on the west side of Evans, at Griffith Farm Road. |
| Barn Number 333: Seamands Barn
Originally part of the Carlsborg Mill and Timber Company, ca 1915, on the west side of Carlsborg at Spath. Then it was part of the Malleis Dairy and finally owned by the Seamands family for farming. Razed in 1996. |
| Barn Number 334: Ivan Robb Barn
Another barn of the Robb family, built in the 1930s and burned in the 1980s. It was in the vacinity of the Battelle Marine Science Lab, Sequim Bay Road east of Keeler. |
| Barn Number 337: Roberson Farm Barn
There was a barn on the northwest corner of Towne Road and Woodcock. It was built around 1925 and burned down in late '70s. |
| Barn Number 338: Mills Barn
A very large, sturdy barn sat at what is now the entrance to Parkwood Estates, on Highway 101 east of Carlsborg. |
| Barn Number 339: Kirk Barn
There used to be a barn at the Pumpkin Patch, built by Mr. Kirk before Highway 101 existed. Owned by the Charles Spencer family until 1978 when it was sold to Philip Lassila. Blown down in 1995. |
| Barn Number 340: Hope Barn
Located somewhere on Nelson Road in New Dungeness. Built around 1910, with the Hopes in 1952, razed in 1989. |
| Barn Number 342: Hatchery Horse Barn
A small utility shed and horse barn built around 1902, and used by Hatchery manager Ernie Brannon. Gone some time after 1983. |
| Barn Number 343: Harleman Brothers Sequim Dairy
Built in early 1900s, the Harleman brothers ran a dairy from there starting in 1928. In 1933 J. D. Harleman was a city councilor, and lived at the family farm until his death in 1962. The barn came down in a 1980 storm. Look to the east of the Haughawout place for a 2-story gray house; the driveway on the right would have led to the barn. |
| Barn Number 345: Clayton Barn
The barn was built in the '30s and taken down for housing in '86. It was on the west side of Brown, south of Glacier View. |
| Barn Number 346: Hayes Evans Barn at Glenn's Valley
Built in 1890 at the east end of Lost Mountain by Dunham. It was home to Frank McFarland until it was bought by Hayes Evans in 1903. A bit later the Evans family moved to another farm north of Sequim. This one was for a small dairy, and was gone after 1976. |
| Barn Number 347: Christensen Barn
Built prior to 1930 along Spath Road in Carlsborg, it came down some time between 1975 and '96. There are three Christensens (George, Tom and Soren) listed in Carlsborg in the 1929 county directory. In 1942 property along Spath belonged to Edith (north side) and Eli (south side) Christensen. Since the barn on the Eli parcel is still standing, my vote goes to Edith's place. |
| Barn Number 348: Chancellor-Emery Farmstead
This Blue Mountain farmstead was started in 1889. The main barn was razed in 1959, and that's the picture we'd really like to have. The remaining log buildings were placed on the Register of Historic Places in 1988. |
| Barn Number 350: Rhodefer Barn
Located between Highway 101 and West Sequim Bay Road on the east side of Rhodefer Road, behind a white house. It was built by the Rhodefer family between 1912 and 1919. They had a few cows at first, then in 1946 these were sold and Bill Rhodefer brought in a whole bunch of sheep. The Elk Loop, Olympic Crest and Fair Weather subdivisions now sit where their sheep pasture was. The barn fell down in the 1970s. |
| Barn Number 352: Bucher Barn
Built on Brown Road in 1909 by Mr. Nolan, and run as a dairy by the Bucher family from 1920. The barn came down in the '60s. Other farm buildings still stand near the property, but it is my understanding that they are not part of the original farm. |
| Barn Number 354: Boyce Ranch
This barn was on Highway 101 near R Corner, east of Lewis (roughly across from Dupuis Restaurant). It was occupied by the Boyce family in the '30s and came down in the wind storm of 1979. A sketch of the barn looks a lot like the Moe Barn just down the street, but no record of Boyce ownership has been found for that barn. |
| Barn Number 355: Bell-Burroughs Barn
Originally constructed on John Bell property by Andrew Hume in the mid 1850s. In 1911 it came into the hands of Dave Burrowes. Finally it was torn down in the late 1970s to make way for the Sequim Post Office. The area just to the north became Kristoferson's Sequim Creamery, and was also part of this property. It is now the strip mall Creamery Square. |
| Barn Number 357: Baker House
Was this a barn made into a house, or a house turned into a barn? There are mobile homes where this building once stood, across the street from the schoolhouse in Dungeness |
| Barn Number 366: Ridgeway Farm
Ben Ridgeway owned property in Sequim, west of 5th between Fir and Hendrickson |
| Barn Number 369: Thornton Barn
A big barn and milk house built in 1918, and gone by the end of the 1980s. It was located near Thornton Road in Old Town (west of Dungeness by the water). |
Barn Number 383: McAlmond House
 There was a barn to the water-side (north) of this house, which was recently taken down. A descentant of the family said she would look for a picture of it, but I'm not holding my breath. |
Barn Number 410: Alfred Fasola Barn
 There is a milk house and shed still here, but the barn came down sometime after 1995. The property was part of the Fasola family holdings in the 1940s. |
| Barn Number 427: Clawson Barn
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| Barn Number 443: Charles Fitzgerald Dairy Farm
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