Click here for a list of Barn Wrights and Restorers in Maine.

Historic Barn Preservation Grants administered by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission (MHPC) are funded through the state-funded New Century Community Program. The Maine Historic Preservation Commission allocates up to ten percent of matching grant funds from this program to private owners of historic barns and related agricultural buildings.  To receive a Historic Barn Preservation Grant application, or to register your name with the MHPC, please send an email with subject heading "Barn Grant Application Request" with your name and U.S. Postal Service mailing address to: Christi.Mitchell@maine.gov. or call her at 207-287-2132, ext. 2.  For more details and information about past grants, go to http://www.state.me.us/mhpc/histbarns.htm

National Park Service Preservation Brief Number 20 – The Preservation of Historic Barns

National Barn Alliance - Preserving America's Historic Barns

The Barn Journal.org - An comprehensive website for everything "barn"!

Maine Preservation's Barn Conference

     Maine's first-time ever barn preservation conference was held on September 28, 2002 at the Round Top Center for the Arts in Damariscotta. It brought together a wide variety of interests and answers to help preserve one of our state's most threatened historic resources.

     Featured speakers from across Maine and northern New England included keynote presenter Thomas Visser, Director, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Vermont and recent author of Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings.

     Conference attendees learned how to maintain and restore timber and common frame barns; discovered tax incentives, easements and funding opportunities through the Barn Preservation Grant Program; heard case studies about barn rescues and adaptive use successes; and also learned to appreciate the cultural, scenic and economic values of historic barns and their immeasurable contribution to our rural heritage.

     On Sunday, September 29th, many attendees took advantage of a self-guided Barn Trek, a driving tour of historic barns in the Midcoast area.

For more information, phone Maine Preservation at (207) 775-3652 or email maineprs@gwi.net

Barn in the USA - This book contains photographs and historical information on mainly western US barns, but is a great addition to any barn preservationist's or enthusiast's library.

Traditional Timber Frame Repair by Arron Sturgis, Timber Framer.

Barns: Up Close and Personal Naomi Schalit from Maine Public Radio talks about what it is like living in an adapted barn.

Barn Wrights and Restorers in Maine.

The Barn Journal - A reader-supported site with general information about barns and traditional farm architecture. Includes stories, people, events, resources, and classified ads.

Taking Care of Your Old Barn - By Curtis B. Johnson and Thomas D. Visser. Ten tips for preserving and reusing historic agricultural buildings. Created for Vermont, this site is very relevant to Maine barn owners as well.

Save the Barn on Stearns Hill Farm - A Calendar for 2007.  Unique fundraiser to help match a barn preservation grant awarded by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission to save a National Register c.1820 barn in West Paris, Maine. For more information, call Ellen Gibson at 207-674-3887 or write her at Stearns Hill Farm, 90 Stearns Hill Road, West Paris, ME 04289.

Barnstormers is located at Thompson’s Point in Portland, in the original train shed from Union Station. The company specializes in reclaiming, dismantling and reconstructing old structures into barns and other buildings using traditional joinery techniques.

Barnstormers
Thompson’s Point
Building #10
Portland, Maine 04102
Phone: (207) 879-9541

Vermont's Historic Agricultural Buildings  provides property owners with a basic guide to taking care of their historic barns and farm buildings. It includes general guidelines, a short history of barns, ten tips for barn maintenance and repair, ways to adapt barns to other uses, sources of advice and funding for barn preservation, and a list of organizations that offer aid to those working on their barns.

The Clark Barn Project in Searsport. The Clark barn is part of a working rural Maine farmstead built in the late 1820's by Jotham Clark, the great-grandfather of the present owner farmer, Howard Clark. This beautiful barn is a classic 40 ft by 65 ft, 5-bay, rural Maine dairy-barn built with post and beam construction, This website chronicles a). the history of the barn, b). the history of the people who worked with her, c). the efforts to restore her and her historical contents.