Thanks for the feedback
'Local' framing traditions are varied over a very short distance around here. Settlement of this region was very late, and from a few different sources.
For the most part, there are 3 main types of barns around here. The oldest is the Pennsylvania Barn, or the Swiss Barn as it is sometimes called around here. Second is the canted purlin barn, a common midwestern style. Last is the round barn. Indiana has quite a few of these.
I also understand the idea of connecting to local history. But the thing is, that's hard to do. Local history in a large part depends on who you are. Go an hour away, for example, to the town of Berne Indiana and you will find old buildings built in Swiss and Alsatian styles by the Mennonite and Amish immigrants who settled the region. Come to Howard County, where I live, the oldest buildings are all log cabins built around the 1840s and 50s. The earliest barns were all torn down to make way for bigger ones, and the oldest extant barn is a Swiss Barn built in 1871, by German Baptists.
This project, however, requires the use of traditional Bernese Swiss styles.
