Dairy Regs forced multiple schemes in retrofitting barns in the name of sanitation, minimizing dust and fighting the spread of Bovine tuberculosis. This often went way beyond the whitewashing we see so often in historical barns, and often involved concrete, sometimes this went so far as to replacing entire lower stories with crete incarnations.

If moved it may have been simply, strait up.

I’m also guessing your in a State which was a colony formerly ?