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Who are
The Barn People?
Photo courtesy of Vermont Historical Society
 The Barn People are a small group of Vermont
craftsman who have taken their many years as experienced carpenters and
designers and applied them to the restoration of old barns. We have a
crew out in the field that specializes in the dismantling phase. These
guys love working out in a Vermont pasture scrambling around on some
barn roof discovering forgotten secrets, looking for clues of origin
and construction. Because the frame is modular and held together with
wooden pegs, the timbers are not destroyed during dismantling. The
wooden pegs are simply removed from the mortise and tenon joinery after
the exterior skin has been taken off and the frame can then be taken
apart piece by piece.
We have another crew that works at our shop restoring the dismantled
frames. These guys prefer the woodworking aspect of their trade. Their
work reflects the meticulous care and craftsmanship that the properly
restored barn frame demands. When it’s time for the reassembly of the
restored barn frame, the field crew and the shop crew combine forces
and travel to distant sites across the country providing knowledge and
continuity of the original frame. It is a very gratifying experience to
stand back and view the reassembled frame, sometimes thousands of miles
away! We all love the astonishment and praise our work invariably
inspires.
We are a small company that specializes in the professional relocation
of vintage restored barn frames. We have relocated hundreds of barn
frames since 1975 that have been used and adapted to a variety of
projects including swimming pool barns, restaurants, visitor and
welcome centers, primary and secondary residences, artist
studios, caretaker’s houses, garages and workshops, great rooms and
numerous additions all over the America. And of course...barns... just
to be barns.
Our projects have been featured in dozens of newspapers such as The
Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Miami Herald, Los
Angeles Times and on numerous occasions, The New York Times. We
appeared in June 2003 in Architectural Digest for a five barn residence
in Sun Valley, Idaho. We were also chosen as “House of the Year” in the
February / 1995 issue of Country Living Magazine. Our projects have
also been featured in Country Living Magazine in April of 1997 and
again in December of 2004.
Some other
publications that have featured our projects are:
Style / November 2009
(click here to read)
Big Sky Journal /
Summer 2009 (click here to read)
Vermont Life / Autumn 2008,
Renovation
Style/ Spring 2008 (click here to read)
Southern Accents/ Nov. - Dec. 2007,
Vitals Magazine / Summer 2005,
Timber Homes Illustrated / Dec. 2005,
This Old House/ Dec. 2004,
Timber Homes Illustrated / Feb. 2004,
Sun Valley Magazine / 2002
New York Times Sunday Magazine / Aug. 2000
and the list goes on.
Years ago we were featured on CNN’s Saturday night journal
“Business Unusual” and more recently on This Old House.
We are members of the following organizations:
• The Association for Preservation Technology International
• Timber Framers Guild of North America
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• The Vernacular Architecture Forum
• Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
• The Dutch Barn Preservation Society
• Historic Windsor
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