Barn History Reports and Documentations
n the historic preservation field it is said that the best manner that a historic homestead building can be preserved – its style, design and construction – those precious secrets created by the consciousness of builders and rural folk of times past is to record or otherwise document a building’s many features. This statement may seem at distinct odds with the likely idea that most people have – preserve a building best with the necessary repairs to sustain its structural integrity and physical longevity – paying particular attention to the soundness of the roof and exterior stone or frame walls and foundation and interior timber framing units.
Recording is the Best Means of Preservation
Unfortunately, no matter how well a structure has been either restored or renovated physical destruction can befall any building at any time for any reason. What this means is that even though enormous sums of money can be spent on a building for securing it against various calamities large or small that might end its physical life at any moment only a detailed historic documentation of it can preserve forever what its specific original appearance and construction mode were. In addition, a recording of its features is far less expensive than what almost any reconstruction project might be.