Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2001.180.0026Description
One original black and white print with 3 scanned copies. Image of sandstone barn. A two story building with steep roof, top ventilation opening with roof and louvers and dormer window. Lower level has arched wood double door with a window on either side. In building end eave has scalloped wood with "DO" painted there. One window on upper level and two on first level. A wide board fence extends from back corner to photo right. Foreground is a street with dirt slope up to building. Pine trees are across street in background.
Written on back in black ink: "John A Donnell barn." In pencil" "Location of Fire Station #1 at 4th and Walnut".
Condition good. Creased top right, scratched, emulsion impacted, accretion.
1st Scanned copy: printed on bottom in black: "Donnell Barn" "A Frank Meyers Photograph Courtesy of Rans Baker". Condition good.
2nd Scanned copy: Written on back in pencil: "Donnell Barn. John A. Donnel 4th and Walnut now site of Fire Station Rawlins Stone 1908. Condition good.
3rd Scanned copy: Printed on bottom front: "Donnell Barn 1908 4th and Walnut, Rawlins, Wy (Photo Courtesy of Carbon County Museum)".
History on Paper: The Donnell Barn. Sheepman John Donnell (Donnel) constructed this ten thousand dollar, thirty two by fifty two foot, two story native stone (Quartzite) Barn on the southeast corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets. Construction was begun in March 1908 and when completed that year, it was considered one of the finest examples of Dressed and Pointed native stone work in Rawlins. Its floor plan featured a wide passageway between large East and West outer doors. On the sides of this passageway were stalls for six horses, storage space for carriages and automobiles, a tack room and a grain room. Above was a large hay loft. At the time, Donnell had the further good fortune to drill a good well within his Barn, finding sweet water at just sixteen feet below its floor. As the City of Rawlins graded and worked Fourth and Walnut Streets, the West and North sides of the building were made inaccessible by vehicle. As a result any further commercial value of the property was lost. In later years, after the Donnell's were gone, the building was used for storage and its only major entrance, being through the old Donnell Home east of it. In 1971 the City obtained the Western portion of the half block on Walnut Street to Fourth and demolished the Barn to make room for the current Municipal Fire Station No. 1.Collection
Photograph Collection