page_title: Pennsylvania barn
section_title: Sweitzer barn
hierarchical_section_title: Pennsylvania barn / Sweitzer barn
caption_attribution_description: English: Pennsylvania Log Barn, Ulster American Folkpark Looking westwards.
context_page_description: A Pennsylvania barn is a type of banked barn built in the US from about 1790 to 1900. The style's most distinguishing feature is the presence of an overshoot or forebay, an area where one or more walls overshoot its foundation. These barns were banked, that is set into a hillside to ensure easy access to both the basement and the level above. Almost all Pennsylvania barns also have gable roofs. Barn scholar Robert Ensminger classified the Pennsylvania barn into three types: Standard Pennsylvania, Sweitzer, and Extended Pennsylvania barns. The Pennsylvania-style barns were also built west of Pennsylvania and in Canada.
context_section_description: Sweitzer barns are also known as Swetzer or Swisser. The name reflects the barn's probable origin from Switzerland. The Sweitzer is the "original Pennsylvania barn"; it was originally a log crib-type barn built between 1730 and 1850. The distinguishing feature of this type of forebay barn is that the forebay projects in a way that the gable end is asymmetrical.
caption: Sweitzer or Swisser type of Pennsylvania Log Barn, Ulster American Folkpark - geograph.org.uk - 289300
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