Too much has been said since I last checked this forum to address all of the information.

Tim, the second barn showed no signs of being moved onto a new foundation and does not seem likely to me in this case. The cut nails pritty much guarantee the barn is not 18th century.

This thread and barn tour is the kind of thing I was hoping to encourage with the Maine Traditional Building Group, and I am sure there will be more tours and discussions in th future. There will be a barn tour at the Guild conference this November and possibly another in March 2009 at the TTRAG conference which is also in Maine. I am on the committee to do an architectural survey of historic buildings here in Waldoboro, and when I get several interesting buildings lined up will host a tour.

One thing I have finally realized is these cg barns with common purlins essentially have NO PLATES!They are possibly the only building types in the world without plates?


Jim

The closer you look the more you see.
"Heavy timber framing is not a lost art" Fred Hodgson, 1909