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Raise the Barn!
Project Update: The Gindler Barn is complete!
After two weeks of long, hot days and hard work the crews with Trillium Dell Timberworks, the Timber Framers Guild and our local volunteers were able to re-assemble Gindler Barn on schedule!

In 2007, the Gindler family of Collinsville decided to donate their early 19th century barn to the Collinsville Area Recreation District.

The historic barn was built in various pieces. The hand-hewed oak bottom portion dates back to the 1820s while the hay loft, made with white pine sawmill timbers, is dated between the 1870s and 1880s. The door hinges came from Germany and are original to the barn. The barn is approximately 36' x 85' with 12' side walls and a gable roof.

The barn was home for up to five horses and included feed boxes, a tack room, a hay loft, a place for storing grain/feed, a wagon room, a hammer mill and an area for milking up to nine cows.

The barn was still in operation the day it was disassembled and moved in pieces to Willoughby Heritage Farm and Conservation Reserve.

From July 7-19, CARD volunteers along with officials from Trillium Dell Timberworks and the Timber Framers Guild worked together to re-assemble the barn at Willoughby Heritage Farm and Conservation Reserve.

Did you miss seeing the project? That's okay, videos produced by Oakview Road Media are posted online! Go to www.youtube.com/GINDLERBARN to watch the crews bring Gindler back to life!

Find out more about the Timber Framers Guild and its part in the Gindler Barn Project here.
Read more about Trillium Dell Timberworks here.
To see a discription of these photos and additional images, visit www.flickr.com and search for Gindler Barn
Extra special thanks to all the folks who helped with the project, especially the Timber Framers Guild's Rocco Bellebuono (below left), Joel McCarty (center), Trillium Dell Timberworks founder Rick Collins (right), and all of their crew.
Rich Kuenneke with Oakview Road Media (above) expects to complete his documentary on the Gindler Barn project in January. You can watch pieces of that film now at www.youtube.com/GindlerBarn