Barn Star
Category: Creative
What is significance of the 5 pointed stars on barns and houses?
On older brick and stone houses, usually in the East, the sides of the buildings begin to bow out from the weight. Engineers run a big steel rod through the house (usually one in the attic and one in the basement) which is threaded on each end. Then they place a big steel plate on each end and secure it with nuts on each end as well. Many old buildings around the Mid-Atlantic have them, especially barns.
Then some person decided that the steel plate could be cut as a design, like a star, or a moon, or the Sun, and they started having stars on the old buildings. They were initially structural and they have evolved into a decoration.
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