Saving Barns & Old Ways Over the past 30 years, Richard Babcock has restored more than 75 barns, either on site or by moving them to his workshop in Hancock, Massachusetts, near the New York border. Most of the antique barns have been converted to homes or museums-and, in one case, a performing-arts center. When this barn is done, however, it will be a barn once again. Located in Dedham, Massachusetts, the building is owned by the Animal Rescue League of Boston. After it has been completed, it will shelter rescued horses, sheep, pigs, cats, dogs, and other fourlegged creatures as it has since the League purchased the barn in 1907. Babcock found the English-framed building in
