Jim, there is the possibility of the barn being moved and placed on the newer stone? Is there any for sure way of knowing. Maybe Don would have some input form the fellow related to the original builder. Documents in town records? The present owner said the house across the road was moved from up the hill down next to the road and he moved it back to where it sets now, the gambrel roof house across the road was his.
I am under the impression the 2x8 bracing was an improvement too take stress off the connecting girts. In the last and newest barn the brace/strut runs from the post to the sill and has no bearing on the girts. So I am wondering if the older the barn the more likely it is to have post to girt bracing?
The first barn was built from recycled material, or some of it, suggesting a newer date along with pencil layout to help back up the theory. The 2x8 bracing would go along with the theory.
The fourth barn, the one in Bucksport, has inboard bracing/struts on all posts running from the post to the lower girt. This barn I happened to find on my way to the tour, a mysterious coincidence. It also expands the region of CG barns to the Down East area.
The tour was nice and worth the 450 mile round trip. Can it be lumped into a MTBRG barn tour, Jim? Tim
