The August 1954 issue of Successful Farming magazine featured the barn on the front cover.
That's the current owner, Barry Romich, standing in the pool. With him are his brother Tom and his father, Ben Romich, Jr. Standing by the slide is Ben's sister, Shirley McKelvey and her daughter Kris is at the top of the slide.
The owner, then eight years old, remembers seeing a display in the front window of Freedlander's department store in Wooster that acknowledged the Successful Farming magazine cover.
Sherwin-Williams Paint
Around this same time, Sherwin-Williams Paint was running an ad that featured the barn. This was the incentive to use Sherwin-Williams paint for the restoration. The prime coat was S-W A-100 Fast Dry Exterior Oil-Based Wood Primer with a P4 gray tint. The finish coat was S-W Resilience exterior acrylic latex satin with SW 7591 Barn Red color.
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The white trim pieces were painted before assembly using the S-W Exterior Oil-Based Wood Primer in its natural white and the first of two coats of the S-W Resilience satin with a SW 7004 Snowbound white color. As with the siding, the trim was put on using ring shank stainless steel nails. After the trim was up, the final coat of Resilience SW 7004 Snowbound white was applied.
The slotted sides and slats of the ventilators were painted before assembly using the S-W A-100 Fast Dry Exterior Oil-Based Wood Primer with a P4 gray tint, followed by two coats of S-W Resilience with SW 6475 Country Squire green color.
The butternut tree in the SWP ad photo was taken down around 2014, sixty years after this photo was taken. The tree removal crew was amazed that it was still standing when they noted how the lower trunk was not much more than a shell.
