Maine Barns in Winter | Photos
A collection of photos celebrating the beauty of Maine barns in winter from frequent Yankee contributing photographer Sara Gray.
By Yankee Magazine|Dec 14 2021|
The two connected post and beam barns at Sabbaday Lake Shaker Village were built in 1830.
Photo Credit: Sara GrayLong-time contributing photographer Sara Gray spent the winter of 2013 photographing the classic New England barns of southeast Maine for our print pages, but striking images weren’t the only thing her lens captured. From the caretakers who work tirelessly to preserve these iconic structures to the animals who find shelter within them, the four barns in New Gloucester, Maine that she focused on all have tales to tell. These striking Maine barn photographs each convey a story that continues to evolve.
See the Yankee 2014 feature: Classic Barns of Maine | Sense of Place
Maine Barns in Winter
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
Photo Credit : Sara Gray
See more of Sara’s work at saragray.com
This post was first published in 2014 and has been updated.
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I am passionate about farms! You have captured many beautiful, rustic photos! I would love to see some of your photos during the other 3 seasons! Let me know if you have and how can I see them. Thanks Alan
Very nice photos. I’ve just completed a three-year project which I presented in a self-published book Pennsylvania Barn Stories. You can review the entire book at http://www.blurb.com. Even though the book is available, I have not stopped photographing barns. I suspect I will be photographing barns until the end.
I am so grateful one of the 2 historic barns at sewall house, where my great grandfather hiked with a young TR, is still there- I replaced the front clapboards this season and it is a catch 22 to lose the charm of the old curled weathered peeling ancient shingles! Such character! If ever in Island Falls maine we are right next to the post office-
What would Maine’s rural landscape be without these wonderful old barns? Many thanks to those who work to preserve them. They are iconic symbols of our agricultural past in a day and age that worships IT and plastic.
Ummm. I’ll take that sled.
I love that sled!!
I grew up on a Farm in WB MA. We had a wonderful three story Barn which I remember vividly to this day at 83 years. I remember playing upstairs. It had an attachment to our house and an outhouse just before the door that went into the barn. My parents held Birthday Parties for me and my friends and they loved it. We had a dog, Lassie, chickens, pigs and a huge garden. I drove the tractor for my dad and I was a very young girl. The barn has since been taken down and character of the neighborhood is no longer. Sad!
The barn at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village looks like the one featured in the movie “Thinner.” Could it be?
Born in 1935 I was privileged to grow up on Blaney Ave., only a mile from City of Peabody (MA) Square, where there were 5 barns on that road. They were early 1800s vintage, contemporaries to the barns at Old Sturbridge Village. Farm use of the barns had long since stopped. Each being in a state of abandonment meant that we kids had our choice of places in which to play. The last of the barns met a firery fate when city authorities allowed it to be torched as part of the spontaneous, euphoric celebrations that erupted on August 14 (today known as VJ Day) at the end of World War II. And a glorious fire it was!
Thank you for re-publishing. I missed the first round.