Why do we paint barns red? -- Aram Balian, 8, Chevy Chase For starters, not all barns are red. West of Washington, for example, you will find many white barns, especially on dairy farms. In Southern ...

Driving along the countryside and coming across a bright, red, beautiful barn is enough to make you want to pull over and grab a photo of quintessential Americana. If I had a barn I'd want it to be ...

When Scott Weber first started working for his dad in the painting business, there were plenty of barns needing attention in Walworth County. "We'd drive down a country road and we'd have work all ...

Wisconsin's dairy industry is often associated with the iconic red dairy barn. But why did almost everyone decide they should be red?