Between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek near Agusta, it is hard to miss this barn with gold-colored lettering painted on the roof. The Barn Theatre was originally constructed in 1943 by Robert M. Cook as a dairy barn.  in 1946 when Jack Ragotzy, Betty Ebert founded the Village Players and a few years later purchased the barn to use as a theater. It is Michigan’s oldest resident summer stock theatre. Such theatres use a group of actors who perform consecutive productions of different shows. The company has performed over 300 plays and musicals and played to over one million patrons.

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This old barn is north of Glen Arbor in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. George and Louisa Burfiend Lawr built this barn for their farm in the 1890s. Louisa was the daughter of Port Oneida pioneer Carsten Burfiend. George and Luisa farmed their land until 1945.

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I saw this little old barn on Love Road near Bellevue. I don’t know anything about it but I thought it was a cute looking little barn. I am not sure where I am going sometimes but I do know you see some rather interesting things traveling the back roads.

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I was out roaming the back roads around Howell and I came across this old barn with the ivy growing up the sides. Like most of the old barns I photograph, I don’t know any history or stores about it. I can only imagine the farmer’s horses had a nice home when it was built, but then again I am a city boy and not a farming expert either, but I do know a pretty old barn when I see one.  I was not able to spend a lot of time in Howell but it is a beautiful town, I need to get back there soon.

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I saw this old barn in the woods near Sharon Hollow northwest of Manchester. I figure it must be an old barn since it has a stone foundation. It seems odd to see this barn surrounded by trees and not farmland. Maybe it was farmland at one time and the trees grew up around the barn after the farmer left. I am not sure what the story is but I thought it was a beautiful old barn so I stopped and took a pic of it.

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I saw this old barn, or at least what is left of it, somewhere near East Jordan. It looks like time has not been too good to this place, and I am sure the Michigan winter does not have any mercy for it.

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