No value was assigned to the barn, but it and the 2 acres it came with were sold for $175,000. In the 1900s, Jobin’s grandfather had used the barn for farming, storing hay bales and raising poultry.

The Red Barn was built by the Kaiser Aluminum Company for Harry Ellingwood in 1945. The 20,000-square-foot building is just off Highway 101 on the northern edge of Monterey County.

Red Barn Academy is a well-known rehabilitation center that isn’t a typical treatment center. Its purpose has always been to help men in need of help for free in a strict 27-month process.

But some multi-location restaurants held on well into the 1980s, including beloved venues like The Red Barn Restaurants. At its peak, the roughly 400 colorful, barn-style structures dotted the ...