The judges panel selected thirty-five images of Connecticut barns in four categories: black and white, color, detail, and smartphone. Included in this selection is “Best in Show,” Connie Mendolia’s “Tobacco Barn at Harvest Time, Glastonbury CT.” The exhibit also includes four “Viewer’s Choice” photos which received the highest number of votes in each category on the contest website. This contest is a result of Preservation Connecticut’s continued commitment to honoring the Connecticut barn. From 2006-2013, the organization surveyed over 8,400 barns across the state with funding from the State Historic Preservation Office and 400 volunteers. The result was a database of 2,000 barns (www.connecticutbarns.org), 200 State Register of Historic Places barn nominations, and a trail leading visitors around the state to these iconic buildings.
The gallery opened at the Art League of New Britain in October and will be moving to the Loos Center for the Arts at The Woodstock Academy (Woodstock, CT). The gallery will be open by private appointment only from Monday, November 23rd, through Friday, January 8th. More details to come at https://www.loos.woodstockacademy.org.
The winning photos:
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Ray Pioggia |
On The Great Hill, Hilltop Farm, Suffield Connecticut |
B&W Viewers’ Choice |
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Gay Ayers |
Phelps Cheese Factory, Colebrook, CT |
B&W |
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Harry Broom |
Haddam Neck barn |
B&W |
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Harry Broom |
Hang in there |
B&W |
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Robert Fiedler |
Somers Almost Gone |
B&W |
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Michele Cahill |
On our way to Canterbury |
B&W |
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James Grant |
Workbench, blacksmith shop, New Hartford |
B&W |
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James Grant |
Ox shoeing sling, blacksmith shop, New Hartford |
B&W |
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Susan Pranulis |
Pranulis Family Barn, Naugatuck, CT |
B&W |
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Sharon Lee Dougherty |
Brae Barn |
B&W |
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Alison Dobbertin |
C.J. Starr Barn, Stamford, CT – Eastern framing reveals the ghost of a smaller building |
Color |
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Debra Aleksinas |
Goshen barn |
Color |
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Gay Ayers |
Muted Red, West Granby, CT |
Color |
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Harry Broom |
On the way to the ice-cream barn |
Color |
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Raymond Harder |
Pelka’s Last Sunrise |
Color |
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Raymond Harder |
Tobacco Barn in Winter |
Color |
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Dwight Hatch |
Tobacco Barn, Enfield, CT |
Color |
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Jeff Pudlinski |
Summer Barn Hay Loft – North Canaan, Connecticut |
Color |
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Ron Sperry |
Strong Family Farm – Vernon Center |
Color |
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Lily Burns |
Forever Young: 1770s barn at Lachat Town Farm, Weston, CT |
Color Viewers’ Choice |
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Dave Brigham |
Old Windsor Barn |
Detail |
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Christina Gundersen |
Fowler Barn in Guilford, CT |
Detail |
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Raymond Harder |
East Granby Tobacco Barns oil Paint |
Detail |
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Christiane O’Brien |
Gilead, CT – Bluebirds and Barns |
Detail |
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James Grant |
Timber framing detail, barn at Viets Tavern, East Granby |
Detail |
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John Correia |
La Salette Park Barn in Winter |
Detail Viewers’ Choice |
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Jim Barnett |
Patriotic Barn |
Detail |
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Dana Laird |
South Windsor Tobacco |
Detail |
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Connie Mendolia |
Tobacco Barn at Harvest Time, Glastonbury CT |
Best in Show |
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Ann Franzen |
Double Exposure: Bellamy-Ferriday Barn Detail, Bethlehem, CT |
Detail |
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Kathy Shea Mormino |
Autumn in Suffield |
Smartphone |
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Emily Derr |
CJ Starr Barn Relic of Stamford, CT “The City that Doesn’t Quite Work.” |
Smartphone |
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Harry Broom |
Barn on Grassy Hill |
Smartphone |
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Margaret Boissoneau |
Waiting for the blue ribbon – Farmington Polo Barn |
Smartphone |
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James Grant |
Tobacco barn, Windsor Locks |
Smartphone |
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John Gilbert |
My Wednesday Find |
Smartphone Viewers’ Choice |
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Patricia Fiocchetta |
Granby Dewey Dairy Barn circa 1800 with Addition circa 1930 |
Smartphone |
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John Correia |
Mount Vernon Road |
Smartphone |
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Pierre Bastien |
Sunday morning |
Smartphone |