STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK

The Reinheimer Barn is about to get a new top.

Workers removed what’s left of the rooftop of the iconic white and green barn at Ketchum’s southern gateway this week.

The roof on the century-old building caved in Feb. 2 under the weight of this year’s record-breaking snows.

The top of Baldy got 28 feet of snow by winter’s end. It had gotten 13 feet of snow by early February while Ketchum had gotten more than five feet.

The barn was owned by the Reinheimer Trust. It was homesteaded by the McCoy family and served as a dairy farm, providing most of Ketchum’s milk at one time.

New Yorkers Howard and Eleanor Reinheimer fell in love with the 110-acre ranch while vacationing here and bought the land in 1941. Eleanor Reinheimer donated the ranch to the Idaho Foundations for Parks and Lands in 1977 with the promise that it remain pastoral—a place for cattle and horse to graze to preserve the rustic rural character of old Ketchum.

Her granddaughter Cathy Reinheimer said she expects the top to be built in the next few weeks.