A selection of 34 photographs of historic barns in Oklahoma taken by OSU professor of geography Brad Bays, is now on display at The Coffee House, located at 3rd and Knoblock, near the southeast corner of the Oklahoma State University campus. The photos were taken as part of a five-year project to locate and document Oklahoma's most architecturally and historically significant barns.

The project was funded by the National Park Service, the Oklahoma Historical Society, and OSU. Since 2009, Bays has used historical maps in conjunction with remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and GPS technologies to direct his fieldwork, which has taken him to each of the state's 77 counties. He has visited nearly 4,000 properties and has photo-recorded over 1,000 for a permanent archive housed at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.

In addition to the archive, the project has already led to multiple nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and assisted some landowners to take advantage of federal and state rehabilitation tax credits.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. The Coffee House is a private, nonprofit Internet cafe supporting international medical missions and other charitable causes. It is open Monday-Thursday 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.