Source: STYLE BLUEPRINT, 10/25/21


Southern landscapes are dotted with architectural traces of the past — textile mill cottages, smokehouses, and a dwindling collection of tobacco barns. Once integral to the air-curing of tobacco and found throughout the South, the tobacco barn is now an increasingly scarce structure. Those remaining are usually in serious disrepair, and there is no single representative style, as each barn was unique to its location and maker. Today, an ambitious group of homeowners are rehabbing, transporting, and repurposing entire barns — or timber from their remains — to serve as extensions for their homes.

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