Synopsis
Built about 1949 by Frank Bateman. Owner Harold Bateman - Bedford / Strawberry. From the April 2005 SVHS Calendar. Harold Bateman Barn (Bedford) "Barn was built in the 1940s and took two years to build. Purpose was for a dairy barn & to store loose hay in the loft. A round roof was used instead of the usual peaked roof. The barn was made of cinderblock, red pine timber and roofed with metal. It was built by Frank Bateman and Rony Suter and the Bateman family. Current use is for storage. It was an excellent facility for dairy cows. Harold remembers how scary it was to put up the rafters because the roof was so tall. Six posts were added to the middle of the barn later because of the heavy snow load."