Construction in the late 1800s, probably around 1870, the barn was made from hand hewn pine posts and beams that builders of the time would pre-cut and fit each timber on the ground, add marriage marks to the timbers so when the beams were erected they would align properly. Some of our tables show these marks.

Standing three stories high with a footprint of 40 x 50 feet, the barn was a general purpose agricultural barn. The basement housed cows and pigs with hay up top.

Times changes and in the 1930s-1940s part of the barn was converted to house "tourists". The beauty of the ara close to Muscongus Bay. Pemaquid Pond and Duckpuddle Pond was a natural draw and started to be discovered by summer tourists.

Successive heirs of "Doc" Winslow sold the farm in 1934 to Henry Hildebrandt, a German immigrant, who ran the place as an inn and summer tourist residence. Rates for room and board (three meals a day) was $16 per week per person. The upper section of the barn was made over for summer lodging (for tourist and staff).

The lower part(s) of the barn continued to play a vital role for the considerable livestock raised on the farm, as well as vegetables for home grown produced to feed the hungry vacationers.

Later a group of investors bought the property from Hildebrandt and after the main house burned in 1985 the place was neglected and virtually forgotten.

In the winter of 2005 the old Winslow barn, with its roof and sides fallen in, was bought and razed by Penny Johnston. With care and dilligence much of the barn wood—both the pine beams and weathered sheathing—was saved and is now used in your Maine Barn Furniture table.