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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ธ.ค. 2014
- In 2011 we purchased a farm from the estate of the prior owner. They had purchased the property in the late 1970's. Prior to then, it had always been in the same family who homesteaded the farm in the 1840's. By the time we got the property it wasn't in the best of condition. This is a photo montage of the barn restoration.
Here is a link to a reedited video with some music: • Restoration of the Ebl... - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
There's a special place in Heaven for people like you who take on this kind of project.
Very impressive work. I always appreciate when someone takes the time and spends the money to restore old buildings, especially barns. The barn was often the first major building on a new farm but people rarely take care of them now. In the past forty years I have seen at least 25 century-old barns collapse due to decades of neglect. There were two bank barns on my family's property. One, that we had maintained for twenty years, fell apart and collapsed within ten years of when we sold that part of the farm. he other was burnt to the ground by an arsonist. Few people could afford to build this type of barn, if you could even find large enough timbers. Bravo for you.
yayyyy. we applaud your vision, your labor, and your wallet. Congratulations
My husband, Hal Robinson, and my two children, Matt & Heather, lived at the old Ebling farmstead from 1975 to 1978. We purchased it from the Ebling family who had owned it since it was homesteaded in @1840. In those 3 years, we enjoyed the barn, which was still in good shape. We held barn dances with a square dance caller at Halloween, and the children often played in the barn. It's hard to believe it deteriorated so much over the ensuing 40 years since we lived there. I'm very curious about what has happened to the farmhouse. Thank you for your invitation to stop by. I will do that next time I visit the area. Thank you for caring about the history of the old homestead, and so beautifully restoring the barn. It will be fun to share stories.
Between the changes the prior owners made and the changes we've made, you might not recognize the house. Then again, maybe that's a good thing because you would have been living in a time capsule! Was the farm already divided by the time you lived here? Do you have a copy of the Milwaukee Journal article? Some time ago I recut the barn video to music: th-cam.com/video/dKzsRc3CIAs/w-d-xo.html
We purchased 5 + acres including all the farm buildings and the hillside apple orchard down to the pond to the north. Are any of the other buildings still standing? There was one tiny indoor bathroom, so we added another one upstairs, sacrificing a bedroom to do so. The electricity was bare lightbulbs hanging from the ceilings. In many ways it was living in a time capsule. years. We loved what we called the "homestead room" with the sleeping loft above. The kitchen was very primitive, and I used the root cellar with the curved brick ceiling and dirt floor. We figured out that the house had been constructed in 4 sections over the years. There was a Mke Journal article written about the farm at that time, probably about 1976 or 77, but I don't think I have a copy of it any more. It's hard to recognize the barn from the video you made. Sad that it was left to rot that way. The cement silo was there, but the top was destroyed. I'm pretty sure we purchased the farm from Emil Ebling who had moved out a year prior. We used to see the Ebling gravestones at the small cemetery to the South. I'm very happy it is in good hands now. We loved it there.
The orchard is long gone and the pond got sold off too :( . Property is now 3 ac. The only out buildings remaining are the milkhouse and the outhouse. We tore the wood shed down. Everything else was left to rot. We demo'd the upstairs bath and built a great room before we moved in. The prior owners redid the kitchen and removed the homestead room loft. We redid that room and it's now our dining room. The cellar/dungeon is still there and it hasn't changed much. The house does have several additions, but the timber frame part is actually not original. Per the Eblings that was a carriage barn they moved in the 1880's. I believe the one story brick part is original dating to 1846. Per the Eblings the original log cabin and "manger" built in 1842 burned due to a "lightning storm". The 1846 replacement was then torn down in the 1860's when the 2 story brick addition was put on. I believe the one story brick part was built on top of the original foundations. The front entry was built some date later, I'd guess early 1940's. Per the Eblings, there are two "missing" graves that were somewhere near the Server property. We've been looking for them, but so far no luck.
Wow fantastic job. Three really big "Cheers" from Canada. You deserve it.
Amazing to find this. I lived on that farm in the 70s. Scenic Road in Richfield. We purchased the property from the Eblings. Great job on the renovation. Beautiful. We survived the ice storm of 1976 for a week with no power by moving into the original log cabin and burning a Franklin stove for heat and cooking.
If you are ever in the area, please feel free to stop by. We'd be happy to give your a tour of the house. The Eblings stop by once a year to check on our progress. Things have really changed under our care, but we're trying to modernize the farm while still being respectful to it's heritage.
I would like that very much. I have driven by a few times over the past couple of years but was hesitant to stop. Next time I definitely will. Thank you for the offer.
What a beautiful barn............question: was the old roof slate? if it was did you keep any of it???
The roof had about 3 layers on it, two of asphalt and one
layer of cedar shingles. 90% of the top layer had weathered away so there was
really just two layers left. Slate is not a regional material so it's never
used around here.
well done a lot of people would have just tore it down. Its my opinion that you should have to spend a year in jail before you tare a barn down, you know realey think about it.