This barn was built in Valley Falls, Oregon in 1872.
This barn was taken down by Brad and his crew from American Woodworx. Then taken to his yard in La Pine, OR. If you're looking for beams, barn wood, or beautiful furniture made from reclaimed lumber check out his website.
Nine of the pieces are 8x8 pine beams from the barn pictured above. You can see the axe marks left from the hewing of the logs.
"Antique timbers, barn wood, and other cool stuff."
Reclaimed, Repurposed, and reloved. :)
Most of us love history in some way. Young or old. Whether it be the history of people, places, old barns, or dinosaurs. We're building a new building - a new house - a new home. Though it is new, it is already rich with experiences and memories. But we also wanted to add pieces from the past. Pieces that connect the old... with the new.
The town of Valley Falls was founded in 1908. It is located at the junction of U.S. route 395 and Oregon route 31. There are only five structures at this township site.
With no saw mills available all the beams were hand hewn.
Hand hewing is the squaring of a log using a variety of axes and adzes.
We initially looked at beams in his yard while in the area for a family gathering. We went back on Aug 6th with our trailer and brought back eleven pieces of hand hewn beams and some barn wood.
Two of the pieces are 8x12 fir beams from the barn pictured below.
Our project will use both pine and fir beams. Many of the old structures were made from multiple wood species. The pioneers used what trees were available.
The Peter Weaver barn was built in 1888. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was taken down in 2014. There are some cool fast mo pictures of the barn being taken down on Youtube posted by American Woodworx.
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We plan to use the eleven hand hewn timbers to build this frame.
The frame will be in the center of the dome, defining the kitchen area.
And the barn boards to panel the ceiling of the kitchen.
We needed some smaller dimension timbers for the braces. We found some 6x6 hand hewn beams and some barn wood siding that we liked at a place in Salem, OR called Barnwood Naturals. We don't know much about this wood except it came from an 1800's barn in Kentucky somewhere.
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George Washington Woldruff and his son James Russel Woldruff built this hog shed on the family homestead in Iowa. James Russel (JR) and Amanda had 13 children. The eighth child was Ethel. Ethel was Dan's grandmother. The 13th child was Marvin. Marvin's son Mark had the opportunity to obtain some of the boards from the hog shed when it was being torn down. Mark reached out to family to offer up some of the boards. We feel very fortunate to have some of the boards and plan to use them in the interior of the dome in some special way.
Hog shed on a family homestead in Iowa.
Mark removing boards before the demolition of the hog shed.
Mark, Joyce, Uncle Larry, and Aunt Pat bundled up these boards and sent them to us. We have them safely tucked away and look forward to using them in an interior design.