I originally typed barn but deleted it in case it was someone’s abode I was insulting it by calling it a barn
I’ve never seen a painted barn around here, not even once!
The second pic is similar to barns here but the silo’s here are shorter and wider.
No decoration, they’d even consider the spending of time and money on white paint a terrible waste
Barn styles vary greatly across the US. My favorite type is the Standard a Pennsylvania Barn:
Wikipedia
That’s a fairly basic one; some are quite ornate.
Painted barns, at least wooden ones, are the norm, just to protect from the elements. Of course, humans always trying to turn a dollar, that led to using barns for advertising, the most famous of which are/were the Mail Pouch barns:
Library of Congress
As to the cost of maintenance, an old saying about American farmers is that they’ll let the house fall into disrepair, while their barn will be rock solid - because the house doesn’t earn money, but the barn does.
With the decline of the family farms, traditional American barns are in some jeopardy, but there are efforts to save them, and quite a few do get converted in houses (as well as old one-room schoolhouses).
Traditionally, while there are many color combinations for barns, is red (leading to many paint companies naming their decorative red shades as some form of “barn red”) with a green roof. Anecdotally, it was because red was the cheapest paint color, due to the plentifulness of iron filings to tint it, and I don’t know about the green.
I’m doing my part:
I’ve even got my hex signs up!
Oh yeah, we have round barns, too:
Wikipedia
