[3] The early pioneers brought with them a barn design inherited from the first colonists.
An average English barn measured thirty feet by forty feet and had a large double wagon door on its lateral side and unpainted vertical boards covering the walls.
English barns were normally without a basement and stood on level ground.
The interior of the barns were characterized by a center driveway which acted as a threshing floor, similar to the breezeway of a crib barn.
[4] The double doors generally opened onto the center drive which divided the building into two separate areas, one for hay and grain storage and the other for livestock.