As so many of Indiana’s historic barns fall to neglect and obsolescence, one woman found a way to put her family’s vintage barn to beautiful new use.

For preserving their historic farmstead in Lawrence County, Ann and Stan Armstrong won the 2018 John Arnold Award for Rural Preservation from Indiana Landmarks and Indiana Farm Bureau.

Indiana Landmarks and Indiana Farm Bureau present annual Arnold Award to Stan and Ann Armstrong

Tim and Beth Sheets’ careful stewardship of their Howard County family farm merited the 2017 John Arnold Award for Rural Preservation.

One of a dwindling number of historic rural schools in the Wabash Valley, a two-room schoolhouse offers a picture of nineteenth-century learning in Vigo County.

A Boone County Christmas tree farm receives our 2016 John Arnold Award for Rural Preservation

Indiana Landmarks and Indiana Farm Bureau rewarded the Maroska family’s stewardship of Walnut Leaf Farm with our 2015 John Arnold Award for Rural Preservation, presented on Farmer’s Day at the Indiana State Fair