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and a bee cellar (collectively referred to as the Rhodes
buildings). The Rhodes barn is a wooden building built between
1912 and 1915. Petitioner considered building a new barn on the
Rhodes property but could not get "for any kind of reasonable
money" as much storage capacity as she had with the existing
barn. The Rhodes barn was in basically good condition, although
it leaked and needed repair. Its foundation was solid. The
remainder of the Rhodes property was in deplorable shape; weeds
and brush had grown, and fences were in disrepair. The chicken
coops, the bee cellar, and the house were in such disrepair that
petitioner had them demolished. Prior to making the outlays
described below, petitioner used the west end of the barn to
stable horses. The last time wood sealer had been applied to the
Rhodes barn was in 1976 or 1977. The barn's tin roof had been
resilvered (painted with a silver-colored coating) also in 1976
or 1977. The barn doors had been caught several times by the
wind and were damaged. The back wall of the Rhodes barn had been
bowed out for over 10 years; petitioner admitted that it would
eventually collapse if not repaired.
In 1991, petitioner resilvered the roof of the Rhodes barn
and replaced four or five of the approximately 126 tin roof
sections. Petitioner also replaced two structural support rods
(to partially fix the bowing out of the back barn wall),
repounded nails in the wood, renailed the roof, caulked the nail
holes in the roof, applied wood sealer, and prepped and painted
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