|
 |
|
|
|
|
| |
Eastern Barn Consultants is a unique historic and cultural
resources company that has helped thousands of barn-owners,
institutions and non-profits interpret, preserve and
appreciate their historic barns. From rural stone and
frame barns to urban style barns and carriage houses,
Eastern Barn Consultants has more than 35 years of experience
analyzing, studying and documenting historic barn architecture.
We create a wide range of written reports for each historic
site. They include historic narratives, architectural
documentations, the establishment of building construction
dates, research of building styles and State and National
Register Nominations.
|
|
 |
| |
The Eastern Barn Consultant web
site is the lifelong inspiration of Greg Huber who went
on to observe, record and find anew ancient barns in the
eastern sections of North America. These venerable old
buildings were found in out-of-the-way places and forgotten
quarters of the continent. Since 1974 approximately 3,500
barns have been visited and examined to varying degrees
in more than 15 eastern states and certain areas of Canada.
Through these years he discovered in the barns’
timbers and their forms certain manners of building expressions
and heretofore unknown secrets were revealed. Ultimately
he knew these venerable old buildings needed to be revived
and their story told to an envisioned enlightened public.
|
|
Greg Huber
|
| |
| Eric Sloane speaking
at the Sloane-Stanley Tool Museum in Kent,
Connecticut circa 1970. |
|
|
A chance meeting with barn author Eric Sloane in
the fall of 1974 provided the original impulse so
that barns would be followed and looked upon with
discerning eyes. After almost 20 years of research
a series of writings was done so that more than
100 articles on barns and closely related topics
have been published to date (Spring 2009). The articles
in sum contain the greatest collection of facts
about barns by one author ever assembled in the
entire world. In addition, Greg has co-authored
two books – he edited the second edition of
John Fitchen’s – New World Dutch
Barn in 2001 and along with two other authors
co-wrote – Stone Houses – Traditional
Homes of Pennsylvania’s Bucks County and Brandywine
Valley in 2005. More than 10,000 copies of
the second book have been sold. In the 1991 to 1994
era he edited and published four volumes of the
“Dutch Barn Research Journal.” It was
the first journal in the world exclusively devoted
to pure vernacular barn research. |
|
| |
For his work on vernacular buildings he has received two
prestigious awards. The first was the Alice P. Kenney
Award in 1997 for outstanding contribution for furthering
understanding of the Dutch-American culture and the Allen
Noble Book Award in 2003 for the best edited book (The
New World Dutch Barn – the Evolution, Forms and
Structure of a Disappearing Icon) on an aspect of
material culture in North America.
Greg Huber has given many dozens of lectures since 1976
on many phases of vernacular barns and houses and led
innumerable barn tours in several states including New
Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
All the while, the barn experiences that have been gained
since the mid 1970’s has led to a commitment in
communicating the experiences, insights and knowledge
to those people with an abiding interest and love of old
barns. Such people with deep connections to barns have
increased almost exponentially in the last 15 to 20 years.
Barns have been placed on the proverbial map. But the
precise directions in finding and knowing the fine print
of clues in discerning how the barns were constructed
and under what constraints in still existing dusty old
barns is the chief function and job of Eastern Barn Consultants.
Stay tuned as the Eastern Barn Consultants have more experiences
to share in the coming months and years. More discoveries
are made almost every day to be shared with everyone. |
| |
 |
| |
|
|
 |
| Eastern Barn Consultants
•
P.O. Box 82 • Macungie,
PA 18062 •
Phone: 610-967-5808 |
E-mail |
|
|
|
