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 shop environment and the woodworking aspect of their trade. Their work reflects the meticulous care and craftsmanship which the properly restored barn frame demands. When it is time for the reassembly of a restored barn frame, a combination of both crews travel to the new site, providing knowledge of the frame and continuity. These guys enjoy traveling around the country reassembling the restored barn frame on distant sites. It is a very gratifying experience to stand back and view the reassembled frame, sometimes thousands of miles away! They love the astonishment and praise their work invariably inspires.

We are a small company that specializes in the professional relocation of vintage restored barn frames and have been doing so since 1975. We have relocated hundreds since then, used and adapted to a variety of projects including swimming pool barns, restaurants, primary and secondary residences, artist studios, caretakers houses, garages and workshops, great rooms, and numerous additions all over the U.S. We have also been involved in many museum projects for various historical societies and town municipalities as well as the U.S. Forest Service. And oddly enough, we've also relocated barns to be just barns!

Our projects have been featured in dozens of newspapers such as The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Miami Herald, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, and on numerous occasions, The New York Times. We've appeared in House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home, Yankee Magazine, Detroit Monthly, Traditional Building, Town And Country and many other magazines, periodicals and "Barn Books". We were also featured as "House of the Year" in the February, 1995 issue of Country Living Magazine. A few years ago we were featured on CNN's Business Unusual. A new barn book by David Larkin is due out this summer and will feature many of our projects.

Architectural Digest will also feature a Sun Valley residence we did a few years ago and is also due out June 2003.

We are also 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