A Piece of Americana Finds Its Way to Tokyo, Japan Where It Will Find a New Life as a Community Center
Waco, TX, July 09, 2010 --(PR.com)-- In this age of easy global communication and travel, new frontiers are being opened everyday, and Heritage Restorations, based in Waco, Texas, is about to undertake a unique project that will open yet another of those untried frontiers. Not only is West meeting East, but Old West is becoming New East this month when Heritage Restorations travels to Japan and rebuilds an historic 1840 timber frame barn from New York state that they shipped overseas in May.
Recycling historic American barns has become a popular theme in building new sustainable American homes, and now this trend appears to be catching on in the Orient where there is a long timber frame building tradition, but few ancient buildings available for recycling.
The barn that is the object of this first adventure is a unique “swing beam” barn from the Mohawk Valley of New York, which measures thirty feet by forty feet. The barn derives its name from the massive 28” by thirty-foot long swing beam, hand hewed from virgin timbers, that allowed for the early settlers to thresh grain inside the barn with a tethered ox.
Heritage Restorations will be sending a crew of master timber framers who along with local Japanese craftsmen will revive the art of ‘Barn Raising’. The finished building will be used for a community center in Tokyo, Japan.
About Heritage Restorations:
Heritage Restorations has been preserving fine examples of timber frame barns, cabins, house and mills from the 1700’s and 1800’s for conversion into homes and offices with all the conveniences of modern structures since 1996.
Each building is documented and carefully disassembled before being brought to our workshop in central Texas. The frame is then cleaned and completely restored. Repairs and restorations are done by our craftsmen using matching hand-hewn timbers, traditional timber frame joinery, and the hand tools used by the original craftsmen.
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Recycling historic American barns has become a popular theme in building new sustainable American homes, and now this trend appears to be catching on in the Orient where there is a long timber frame building tradition, but few ancient buildings available for recycling.
The barn that is the object of this first adventure is a unique “swing beam” barn from the Mohawk Valley of New York, which measures thirty feet by forty feet. The barn derives its name from the massive 28” by thirty-foot long swing beam, hand hewed from virgin timbers, that allowed for the early settlers to thresh grain inside the barn with a tethered ox.
Heritage Restorations will be sending a crew of master timber framers who along with local Japanese craftsmen will revive the art of ‘Barn Raising’. The finished building will be used for a community center in Tokyo, Japan.
About Heritage Restorations:
Heritage Restorations has been preserving fine examples of timber frame barns, cabins, house and mills from the 1700’s and 1800’s for conversion into homes and offices with all the conveniences of modern structures since 1996.
Each building is documented and carefully disassembled before being brought to our workshop in central Texas. The frame is then cleaned and completely restored. Repairs and restorations are done by our craftsmen using matching hand-hewn timbers, traditional timber frame joinery, and the hand tools used by the original craftsmen.
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Caleb Tittley
877-354-2276
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Caleb Tittley
877-354-2276
heritagebarns.com
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