Ultimate Horse Barns

By Randy Leffingwell

Book Overview

Each of the eighteen masterpiece horse barns featured here is an innovative, beautiful structure that embodies the owners' love and appreciation for horses. Author Randy Leffingwell has selected barns that possess exceptional qualities--a clever response to site challenges; meticulous attention to detail, equine health, and safety; or significant historical context. The purposes of the barns range from havens for private owners to successful breeding and training facilities to historical landmarks. Ultimate Horse Barns captures the architectural beauty of these stunning structures, as well as the love and passion the owners have for their horses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760337861
• ISBN13: 9780760337868
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Horse Enthusiasts Will Love it!

This pictorial gem makes a great gift for the horse-lover in your life. The photographs are absolutely breathtaking.

Wow

This book has some pretty great pictures! Definitely a great gift for any horse lover that dreams of having their own barn.

Ultimate Horse Barns

As a lover of horses and pictoral books on design, I have been looking for this type of book on horse barns for quite some time. This book contains a well thought out range of historic and new equine related buildings that have been beautifully photographed. The descriptive passages relating to each property give a very personal and charming look at the development, building process and use of the buildings. My interest in the book was primarily in the photographs which are not over powered by the text. I have purchased a number of other books on the subject but they do not compare to the quality of this publication. For horse lovers, would be barn builders and lovers of unique architecture, I highly recommend "Ultimate Horse Barns".

Spectacular Accommodations for Prize Horses

And I thought that people spent a lot of money on houses. Then again, with horses of the caliber being housed here, I suppose the cost of the Ultimate Horse Barns being shown here isn't significant after all. You could build nearly any of them for say $4 to $5 million. Needless to say these are not little sheds just to keep the horse out of the rain. The buildings included here range from new construction to buildings that are well over a hundred years old. Many of these buildings are part of institutions such as the University of Vermont, the Kiwanis Club of West Toronto. Some belonged to the rich and famous, such as Vanderbilt. Some are working horse farms, but with a specialty in breeding or training high end horses. Note though that these are working barns. There are horses here, horses being groomes, trained, or like 'Bailey' on page 125 looking out of his stall as if to say, 'OK, it's morning, where's my breakfast.'