This barn was built c.1790 in New York State by Dutch settlers to the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. It measures 40' x 45' square on the ground level. The unusual design is said to date to the 11th century in the Netherlands. It reached its height of craftsmanship in these barns built on the American frontier in the Mohawk river valley, the setting for James Fenimore Cooper’s “Last of the Mohicans.”
Dutch barns are some of the earliest American barns, and few survive to the present.
The posts and beams are hand-hewn from massive timbers cut from the virgin forest. The largest timbers, the anchor beams, measure 18 inches wide. The longest beams are forty six feet, in one piece. The entire frame is joined together with mortise and tenon joints and wood pegs. The wood species are hemlock and eastern white pine.
This barn frame will be carefully dismantled and numbered. We make all necessary repairs and fumigate the barn before shipping to your building site. Our experienced crew travels to your site and re-erects the frame on your foundation.
