The North Fork is the roughly sixty-mile-long spit of New York's
Long Island that runs from Riverhead to Orient Point. With the
fairly well protected Long Island Sound on the North and Peconic
Bay on the South, it was a logical place for some of the earliest
English immigrants to settle and build barns. It is still home to
more working farms than any other part of the island. And from the
timber-frame barns of the British farmers of the seventeenth
century to the pole barns of the twentieth, the variety is
stunning.
In a survey sponsored by the Old House Society in Cutchogue, Mary
Ann Spencer spent the last few years making a comprehensive
inventory and photographing more than six hundred barns on the
North Fork. Two hundred of them are still in use, although their
fate is by no means certain. Here in their glory (and sometimes
less than that) are the most interesting barns, which reveal, among
other things, their functional development, their often haphazard
fenestration, their soft patina of age, and their fit in the
landscape. Spencer's complete survey forms a second part of this
book, which provokes feelings of nostalgia and raises our fears for
the future of these wonderful structures. More than 150 color
photographs.
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