Wildwood Brewery

This brewery was a special project for us, we dismantled, moved, and restored a 1901 timber frame barn that was originally standing in northern Wisconsin where we grew up. Our father orchestrated the bulk of the dismantling of the barn while preserving the joinery. We worked as a team to dismember the mainframe elements. After dismantling, the barn was shipped to our facility in Montana where it was restored. The restoration included putting the entire barn back together, eliminating twist, replacing rotten members, flattening all exterior surfaces, housing and flattening all girts to carry floor loads, and refitting the entire frame. Using beams from the historic Bonner Mill we rebuilt the roof system to open up the second-story floor plan for storage. We plugged old peg holes and re-drilled all members in their new positions. We navigated the design challenges to accommodate the needs of our client. This project continued with green straw bale building elements as new life was created in the construction of the Wildwood Brewery from century-old timbers. Not only does the timber bring a piece of my childhood home to Montana but brings pride in a great example of an environmentally conscious building.