Amanda Schmidt, 31, has been living in the 50ft by 100ft building for the last six months. She bought the 72 acre ranch with an old abandoned dairy barn and main house with the dream of creating a ...

The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy ...