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Workers dismantled a century-old Mankato barn that will be reassembled on a Northfield organic vegetable farm.
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The barn near Home Depot in Mankato once housed horses before conversion to a chicken coop in the 940s.
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A rotted beam bespoke the barn’s age.
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Old barn gets second life

By Brian Ojanpa
Free Press Staff Writer

He said the barn will be used to shelter vegetables and as a pickup depot for customers, and its weathered wood will be stained red.

Doherty said acquiring the structure and having an old-fashioned type of barn-raising is a pie-in-the-sky daydream come true.

“And we look forward to it having maybe another 100 years of usable life,” he said.



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