Nice pics Dave, and interesting details.
I was looking forward to seeing them.
It appears that barn is not much like the connected girt barns we've been seeing here in Maine. It is as Ken suspected: an inturrpted plate barn. But even still it's unusual. I'm guessing there's very little overhang on the eaves of that barn. Ours have canted crossties to catch flying plates and/or purlins that make a decent soffit area. But the flying stuff doesn't connect the building per se. It's the girts, which are pretty beefy.
Another thing I noticed is the plates in that barn meet at the top of the post, below the crosstie. In the CGs here the "plates" are tight to the roof deck because they're really just nailers for vertical roof sheathing.
This is what we've been finding up here:
As you can see, the dropped girt is the principal bent connector. And obviously NO PLATES. There are flying purlins outside the wall sheathing on this particular one.
Do you suppose that barn you have there was raised in "bents?" Having the inturrpted plate suggests it was, so in that way our two types are similar I suppose.
Those double crossties and passing braces are odd for sure. Thanks for sharing!
