PORTLAND, Ore. — Well before the city of Portland passed an ordinance last summer requiring houses built before 1916 to be salvaged for re-use, Preston Browning was passionate about reclaimed lumber.

When Scott Tempel and his wife, Kara, bought their 13-acre farm in Scott County a year and a half ago, it came with a storybook dairy barn that had faded red boards, a steep metal roof and an old ...

Traveling throughout Ohio, you might see some old barns, many in various stages of decay. Many historic barns have disappeared over the years, either from fires or storm damage, but a central Ohio ...

TOWN OF BERLIN, Wis. — The decision to tear down the barn wasn't an easy one for Ann and Jerry Ohde. At one time, it was gleaming white, and an important center of the life that Ann had built with her ...

(WBIR-North Knoxville) If you want to build something out of wood, you could always head down to your local hardware store or big box retailer to find some two by fours. If you want another option, ...

Larry Gerdes is having his barn taken down and disassembled in Malta Bend, Mo. It’s about the size of a three-car garage but stands much taller in a clearing surrounded by six-foot stalks of corn. The ...

A crew from StoriedBoards reclaimed beech flooring from this circa-1930 barn on Durham Road in Stillwater, which builder Shawn Van Veghten then used while building a new house nearby. (Photo provided ...

The old 1949 barn in Mississippi had seen better days. A few years earlier, a tornado scored a direct hit and tore a gaping hole in the roof. The rainwater that followed ate large holes in the ...

Out past the rows of corn, down the gravel road in Trimble, Mo., stands The Barnwood Farm, purveyor of wood reclaimed from old barns and other buildings. The company does full scale lumber and barn ...

Nathan Brown, the founder, and his sister Liz Brown, senior sales executive, by some of their wood at Old World Timber, 1195 Versailles Road in Lexington. Charles Bertram [email protected] ...

Ton by ton, about four times a year, Friends of Historic Preservation volunteers salvage building materials from Iowa City structures slated for demolition. Their efforts keep about 40 tons of usable ...