Timber Frame Barn Restoration

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Collinsville Illinois Barn Restoration

In June of 2006, Trillium Dell Timberworks and Willoughby Heritage Farm hosted a week long restoration workshop & barn raising. Willoughby Heritage Farm & Conservation Reserve is a 40 acre site operated by the Collinsville Area Recreation District. Plans for the farm include numerous educational and recreational opportunities. The farm and surrounding acres will showcase life on a typical family farm of the 1920's to the 1950's as well as the region's plant and animal life and, geological history. The bank barn will become a well-known signature structure that will house livestock, and will provide interpretive all-purpose areas for community, recreational, and educational programs/activities. The lower level will open onto the pasture and will be used for animal stock and farm equipment. The second level will be ground level to the farmyard entrance and will be used as an interactive program area for interpretive display and recreation activities. The upper, haymow level is planned to provide space for development of a multi-purpose classroom.

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Barn Restored As House in Glenn, MI

We restored and erected this four bent 38ft x 46ft white pine barn that was originally built in 1884. This barn was converted into a beautiful home that overlooks Lake Michigan. Experimental high density foam panels from Fischer SIPS were used to enclose this frame. There is a magazine article about this home that was published in the November/ December issue of Cosmopolitan Home Grand Rapids Magazine. which shows many pictures from the completed house.

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Restoration of the Lyford Family Barns at Midway Village

We dismantled, repaired and re-erected an 1850s hand hewn mixed hardwood barn for Midway Village and Museum Center in Rockford, Illinois. The barn had deteriorated extensively; we repaired or replaced 80% of the structural members. We also supplied the recycled siding for the barn. During the raising week, we instructed 20 apprentices form Carpenters Local on timber framing and barn restoration techniques. The barn is now being used as part of a living history museum.

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Phelps Barn Restoration

In 2002 Trillium Dell Timberworks started restoring a historic barn for the Elmwood Community Foundation. The barn, which is known locally as the 'Phelps Barn', is an early hand hewn square rule frame designed originally as horse barn by one of the founding families of Elmwood. The Phelps barn, which will continue being restored this summer, is to be used as a museum and interactive learning site in the future.

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