The Parker Training Academy Dutch Barn is located at that institution on Turkey Hill Road in the town of Red Hook, New York, United States.

Since the mid-20th century the building has been on the campus of Parker Training Academy, part of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS).

Terrain is gently rolling, with wetlands amid low hills, as the Hudson River valley begins to yield to the Taconic Mountains.

[3][4] The building itself is on the east side of the academy's driveway, which runs north from Turkey Hill, about 150 feet (46 m) from the road.

To its west the driveway widens to include parking spaces on either side; the buildings of the rest of the academy complex are to the north.

A side road south of the barn climbs gently up a hill to the academy's watersphere on a nearby wooded ridge at the town line.

Northeast of the barn is a small retention pond, which drains to Lakes Kill, partially fenced off on the north and west, with a large mowed lawn beyond between it and the nearest building.

The roof eaves slightly overhang the east and west sides but are flush on the others, with a plain fascia below.

[2] The south (front) facade has 12-foot-high (3.7 m) double Dutch doors of vertical battens with cast iron strap hinges, four per section, in the center.

Near the north end of the west side, structural deterioration has exposed the foundation slightly, and some modern concrete blocks used to shore it up are visible.

Many of the Palatine Germans who settled the area around Red Hook, in northwestern Dutchess and southwestern Columbia counties, adopted it as well.

They were used by farmers whose main product was grain, primarily wheat, with a central threshing floor and side aisles to serve as small granaries.