A carriage barn was a common feature in the mid to late nineteenth century that was typically placed at the back of the lot of a house to store a horse drawn carriage.
The 24ft X 36ft Carriage Barn was once located on the old Jones Farm on Burbank Rd. on the north edge of Wooster. It was given to the Society by Weaver Custom Homes in 2007. The crew of Rudy and Laura Christian with the help of the Wayne County Schools Career Center’s senior carpentry class disassembled the barn in eight days during October of 2007 and put it into storage until it could be rebuilt on the Society’s campus in October of 2012.
The Society is happy to be able to preserve this structure from the old Jones Farm which was the last holdout of beautiful farms in the Burbank and Riffel Rd. area that has since been heavily developed.
The Carriage Barn houses all of the carriages and other early transportation vehicles the Society has acquired over the years.
