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Liana Hall poses for a photo inside her renovated barn with her canine companion, Bo. PHOTO BY GOLDIE RAPP
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Barn restoration How a Princeton woman turned an 1800-era cattle barn until the home of her dreams
By Goldie Rapp
F
or months, Liana Hall had her eye on an old farm homestead located just a few miles northeast of Dover. There on that piece of property sat an old hay barn that at one time housed goats, cattle, hogs and probably chickens. The barn had sat empty since the 1950s and looked rundown on the outside, but Hall said it showed
signs of having good bones and a lot of potential. In early 2018, Hall called up the property owner and asked if he’d be willing to sell it to her. It didn’t have much worth to him, so he agreed on a sale. When the papers were signed and the deed handed over in March, Hall said her dad handed over a carpenter pencil and that started a venture to restore the 1800-era barn
into a living space that Hall today calls her forever home. “When I walked in for the first time when I was looking at buying it, somehow I could picture it all in my head. The different rooms and how it would be laid out,” she said. Over the next three years, Hall, with the help of family and friends, gutted the barn and worked to See Barn page 20
On the cover: Liana Hall of Princeton stands outside her barn, located just northeast of Dover. PHOTO BY GOLDIE RAPP
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