If you have a photo affair with barns & are coming this way I'd suggest picking up a copy of "Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn" by Thomas Hubka. It concerns the 'connected' farm buildings in New England, with the main concertration being in eastern & south eastern NH & western & south western Maine). The connected farms were unique in design to New England (with a smathering in eastern New York) & were not connected because the farmer wanted to walk though a warm sheltered area to get to his/her stock (though it was a side benift) it was far more for the function of the self sustaining farmer & all of the assorted trades that were practiced. The direction to the prevailing winds, the sun, the road & the yard work also made quite a difference.

If you like strange barns on the Mass Av exit off Rt 93, across from Boston City Hospital, a round brick (no flat planes) barn maybe a good 100' across & 40' to the eave with a slate roof & a coupolo at it's peak.

Barry