Storage Building 8
In French: Entrepôt 8 du ranch Bar U
About Storage Building 8
Storage Building 8 is one of 30 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings in Foothills County. By its record, Storage Building 8 was built in 1883–1884. 23 other places on the registers stand within 400 m.
Storage Building 8 at Bar U Ranch, is a simple, one-storey structure with a medium-pitch gabled roof and a small shed-roofed entrance porch. The building has a single door, and a single window high in the rear gable end. The walls are of round log construction, with squared dovetail-notched corners. The roof of Building 8 is supported by pole rafters braced with collar ties and tied with ceiling joists lapped and nailed near mid-span. The roof is covered with cedar shingles and has two wood ventilation stack vents and a larger cupola on the ridge near the front of the building. The interior stud walls are sheathed with boards in order to line the walls with insulating sawdust, and the interior stud wall partitions lined with boards divide the building into functional areas. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Storage Building 8 · Open Government Licence – Canada · in the register’s words, not edited
Classified federal heritage buildings are the federal government’s most significant buildings.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Foothills County · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Storage Building 8Start here
- 2Dairy BarnClassified Federal Heritage Building · 100 m on
- 3Work Horse Barn, Building 17Classified Federal Heritage Building · 100 m on
- 4Vehicle Garage, Building 24Classified Federal Heritage Building · 200 m on
- 5WoodshedClassified Federal Heritage Building · 100 m on
20 within 300 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
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Questions about Storage Building 8
What is Storage Building 8?
Since 1993, Storage Building 8 has been a Classified Federal Heritage Building.
Is Storage Building 8 protected?
Yes, while the federal government owns it: changes go through its heritage review.
When was Storage Building 8 built?
The register dates the construction of Storage Building 8 to 1883–1884.
Can you visit Storage Building 8?
The outside is easy to see; inside, it depends on the owner’s rules.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles.
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