Well attestedNamed from the place
Pennsylvania barn
noun · first attested 18th century
Its overhanging upper floor came from Alpine Europe, not from Pennsylvania.
A two-level barn built into a bank, with the upper floor overhanging the stable wall below.
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Pennsylvania barn
Settlers from German-speaking Europe built these bank barns across southeastern Pennsylvania from the eighteenth century, carrying an Alpine and Rhineland form across the Atlantic. The type spread down the Appalachians and into Ontario, taking Pennsylvania's name far outside the state.
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