The Cummings Family of Vanderburgh County owns this barn.  The exact age is unknown, but it was built in the early 1900's.  The barn is located in the Ohio River bottoms, thus the need to build the barn above the potential floods, on stilts.  Floods are a regular occurrence in this part of Indiana.  Therefore, livestock farming was rejected for crop farming.  The lower area was built into stalls for the work horses and mules.  During the hot summer days, the stall area of the barn was quite cool for the animals' comfort.  Today, horses and mules no longer pull the plows and the barns are too small for the harvest so they are used for equipment storage. 

I developed this large painting from my plein air painting and photographs.