Crib barn

Crib barns were especially ubiquitous in the Appalachian and Ozark Mountain states of North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, East Oklahoma and Arkansas.

These barns were composed of multiple cribs, up to six, which were used for feed storage or livestock pens.

Unaltered examples of crib barns usually have roofs covered with undressed wood shingles, which, over time, were replaced with tin or asphalt.

[1] The most popular type of crib barn built in the Appalachian states was also the simplest to construct considering its size and stability.

The breezeway, which essentially acted as a driveway which entered the barn was often used for threshing grain.

Reese Family Log Barn, Novinger, Missouri U.S.A. National Register of Historic Places 79001344
Double-cantilever, two-crib barn at the Tipton Place in Cades Cove, Great Smokey Mountain National Park, in East Tennessee. The cantilever barn design, which is Western European in origin, is common throughout Southern Appalachia but rare elsewhere in North America. National Register of Historic Places 77000111