The local library here has an excellent book called "Barn Plans and Outbuidings" by Algrove Publishing. The cover says it was originally printed in 1889. It has a whole stack of plans for barns that existed on farms in the US at that time. It also sometimes tells a little about the farm and how much the structure cost to build (in 1889). The most extravagant barn in the book cost 1500 dollars. There are also all sorts of engravings and plans for building things like ice houses, creameries, temporary cattle shelters (like when you move to Kansas and have to find somewhere to put your cows that first winter) and corn cribs.
I love to look at the pictures and see how people managed things before electricity, even if I do work on a farm with a state of the art cheese aging facility.
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