Sample our current menu of interesting websites and downloads.
Customer Galleries and Sites
Appetizers
http://www.barnmakers.com
Visit our newest website and learn more about Barn Kits by Yankee Barn Homes. These post and beam barns are great for storage, livestock, cars, airplanes, whatever you desire. Everybody needs a barn!
http://www.nh.com
A listing of the 2004 Cornerstone Awards from the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of New Hampshire. Yankee Barn Homes was the proud recipient of 7 Cornerstone awards! Be sure to check out the July 2005 issue for a listing of the 2005 Cornerstone Award winners.
http://www.channel4.com
A nice article from the UK featuring information about kit homes and specifically Yankee Barn Homes.
An English Barn Conversion
Read about an English couple who fell in love with a barn and lovingly restored and expanded it into a beautiful living space.
Open Joist is a revolutionary, open-web, wood floor truss engineered with superior strength and load-carrying capabilities.
https://systembuilt.mandtbank.com/
M&T Bank provides information and financing for your new timber frame home.
http://www.yankeeaca.com/
Yankee Farm Credit provides information and financing for homes and businesses. They are a great resource for building in a rural area.
http://www.randallsbackhoe.com/unitconversions.html
For our international customers, the Unit Conversion calculators allow you to easily convert between various English and Metric units for Length, Area, Volume, Weight, Temperature, Pressure, and Force.
http://www.trada.co.uk
The Timber Research and Development Association is a United Kingdom based organization that offers many resources on timber framing. Most of the information is geared for customers in the UK.
For Architecture Buffs: http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/kithomes.html
An interesting article on the wave of "kit housing" that rolled through the U.S. from 1908 to 1940. Over 100,000 of these homes were built. The Sears and Roebuck catalogue was the main source.
"The Art of Carpentry Made Easy". Book review of pre-civil war text on timber framing, from barns to railroad bridges. The author was William Bell and the reviewer is our CEO, Tony Hanslin.
http://www.uvm.edu
A pictorial history of types of barns built in Vermont. Much to our surprise, Yankee Barn was a style built from about 1820 to 1870. Our siding often looks more like the English barns of Colonial Vermont!
http://www.thebarnjournal.org/
The Barn Journal On-Line is maintained by the Michigan State University Museum. The link to "Featured Barns" brings up fabulous photo essays on unique barns published once quarterly. This link discovered by Erica of Bend, Oregon.
http://www.thebarnpeople.com
This is an excellent source for learning about restoring barns and converting
them into homes or other dwellings. They buy, dismantle, clean, repair,
and sell old barn frame packages for new construction.
http://www.barn-builders.com
Visit Bruce Willemsen of Pella, Iowa who specializes in Barn restoration.
Nails: Clues to a Buildings History
University of Vermont Historic Preservation Research site.
Chef's Secret Recipe
http://kitchen-bath.com
An online resource for kitchens and baths. The focus is on remodeling, but good product info for a new house too.
http://www.brandywinevalley.com
Learn more about the area where one of our Yankee Barn show homes is located. The Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau has an array of useful information and links about the West Chester and Brandywine Valley areas of Pennsylvania.
http://www.visitnh.gov
The official site of the NH office of travel and tourism.
http://www.NHmade.com
Shop New Hampshire's newest village - online. Visit the local furniture maker, pewtersmith, potter, confectioner, and more. Discover the initiative and inspiration that define the New Hampshire spirit!
http://www.mainemade.com
Enter the online Open House to see a Yankee Barn decorated with products from Maine.
Enchanted Pines Bed & Breakfast
See the first Yankee Barn Home that was built in Ohio. The owners have turned it into a beautiful B&B!
http://www.aecinfo.com/
Architecture, engineering and construction database for answers to specific questions about building products and services.
Other Fare
http://www.nbm.org
National Building Museum is America's premier cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning.
http://www.systembuilt.com
M&T Mortgage Corporation has a specialty in construction lending for system built housing. You might finance a timber frame, log home or modular home with these people. A construction loan is sometimes used prior to taking out a permanent, twenty year, or so, mortgage.
http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/
Freddie Mac weekly mortgage rate survey. We looked for quite a while to find a good source for market survey mortgage rates. This government agency seems to do the job pretty well.
http://www.nahb.org
Get contact information for local and national building associations.
http://www.brosco.com
The Brockway-Smith Company is a major distributor of quality millwork products all over the Northeast.
http://www.confederate.com
Not yankee, not even a house! This motorcycle manufacturer designs with bone, not bling. They refer to themselves as the Bauhaus of two wheels. If you go to New Orleans to test drive their bike, they will deduct the airplane ticket form the purchase price. Yankee Barn does the same with airfare if you fly to see us in Pennsylvania or New Hampshire.
BuilderCentral.com - Comprehensive Home Builder Web Directory
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