Historic Structure Report: The McClean Barn
Holt KW and Dickey JM. 1985. Historic Structure Report: The McClean Barn. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Rebellion", Gettysburg was the Civil War's bloodiest battle and was also the inspiration for President Abraham Lincoln's immortal "Gettysburg Address". The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. This historic structure report concerns the Barn at the McClean Farm. The structure represents a type of construction characteristic of Pennsylvania barns which is important to architectural and economic history, and is both fragile physically and uneconomic in present-day agriculture. The preservation of the McClean Barn and its maintenance and ultimate restoration are thereby justified .
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Holt, Kenneth; Dickey, John
- Date of Issue
- 1985-07
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- GETT , NER
- Keywords
- adaptive reuse, agriculture, barn, Civil War, farm, homestead, McClean, McClean Barn, McClean House, McLean, McLean Barn, McLean House, restoration, vernacular architecture
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000461: Moses McHSean Farm Barn