McFadden Barn
Chaffee County
The 1900-01 McFadden Barn is located in the west headquarters of the McFadden Homestead, north-northwest of the Town of Buena Vista in unincorporated Chaffee County, Colorado. The building has a stone foundation, a log frame with unusual tying joinery, walls clad with horizontal boards, and overhead sliding doors. Main floor entrances are on its north and east walls, and lower level access is on the south. The gabled roof has overhanging eaves, is clad with corrugated metal roofing panels, and holds two louvered wood cupolas.
The 1900-01 McFadden Barn is locally significant under for its architecture, as a large example of an early twentieth century bank barn in Chaffee County, Colorado. The building also is notable for its log post and beam construction with unusual joinery. The period of significance for Architecture is 1900-01. The barn supported cattle and hay raising activities through the end of the McFadden tenure in 1960.