PROGRAM OUTLINE

Track One:  A "technical" focus - Learn to Identify barn types and how they were built; find out how to assess barn conditions and approach long-term maintenance in an orderly fashion.
 		    
Track Two:   A special "Community"  focus - Identify types of historic barns, develop conditions assessment strategies, learn about the components of a community-wide barn survey, and hear the results of  "grass-roots" efforts to preserve barns.

Two Panel presentations will focus on community-wide approaches to evaluating and saving barns, determining the best re-use, raising funds, and more.  The first panel focuses on utilizing Massachusetts Historical Commission guidelines and methodologies to identify and survey historic barns and outbuildings within a community.  In the second, three examples of successful community barn preservation and re-use projects will be presented by some of the people who made them happen.
These panel presentations are a "must attend" for those interested in saving endangered barns and outbuildings in their communities.

 

   New This Year!
   Community
Barn Preservation
 

 

 

Track

8:30

Registration & Exhibits     

 

9:00

Conference Welcome

            Charles H. McColough, Chairperson
                  Barn Task Force
            James W. Igoe, President
                  Preservation Mass
            Dennis D. Picard, Museum Director
                  Storrowton Village Museum

 

 

9:30

New England Barn Types &
Preservation
Strategies
          Thomas D. Visser

 

1 & 2

10:30

Morning Break & Exhibits

 

 

11:00

“How Did they Build ‘em Anyway?”
New England Barn Construction Techniques
          Jack A. Sobon

“Many Needles in a Haystack:”
Community Barn Surveys
          Panel Presentations
          Anne Forbes: Historic Preservation Consultant

                           Acton, MA
          Christopher Skelly:  Director of Local Gov. Programs
                           Massachusetts Historical Commission

 

 

1


2

12:00

Lunch & Barn Visit
Barn Visit & Lunch
 

1
2

1:15

Barn Task Force Update

 

1 & 2

1:30

How to Love and Care for your Old Barn:

Condition Assessments & Maintenance

as a Long-term Commitment
            Arron J. Sturgis, Owner
                  Preservation Timber Framing, Inc.

 

1 & 2

2:40

Approaching Structural Repair
          Jack A. Sobon
“Red Elephants” or Vital Local Resources?
Community Barn Preservation & Reuse
          Panel Presentations
          James Cram: Chair, Lawrence Barn Committee
                          Hollis, NH
          Norman Isler: President, Topsfield Historical Society
                          Topsfield, MA
         Lili Ott:  Member, Williams Barn Committee
                         Groton, MA

 

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2

3:40

Barn Talk
          Arron Sturgis will lead conference
          presenters in a question and answer
          session for the attendees

 

1 & 2

4:15

Wrap-up and End of Conference

 

 

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