A warped metal extension, a bright-yellow entrance and a barn converted into a play house feature in this roundup of barn and farm conversions in the Northeast of the United States.
Ranging from Maine to Pennsylvania, the Northeast region of the United States features a bounty of farmland architecture with a vernacular reflecting its European roots.
Rooted in English, Dutch and German colonial styles, there are some variations, but the farmhouses, barns, and other structures in the region are characterised by clapboard or stone siding, small windows due to the scarcity of glass and steeply pitched roofs in the face of heavy snowfall.
Many architecture studios have been commissioned to restore, expand and update the ageing structures, keeping the original forms intact while adding novel materials and pops of colour as well as contemporary weather-proofing. The eight farmland properties below have each received a contemporary upgrade with designers preserving or paying homage to the structures' origins, the oldest of which dates back to the late 1700s.
Read on for the full list.

The photo is by Randazzo & Blau
Gallatin Passive House, New York, North River Architecture
North River Architecture created the Gallatin Passive House as an extension to an 18th-century farm in upstate New York, restoring and repurposing an on-site barn as a play space for the owner's children.
"The site design links the new house to a fully restored 18th-century Dutch barn, now repurposed f...