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 "Dale Lehmer… is one of the founding fathers of the barn-saving movement."

AmericanProfile.com 8/24/03

"My wife and I were looking for a truly extraordinary barn frame to build our future home around in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We approached Dale with this challenge in mind, and he diligently set out to find just the right one to satisfy our structural and aesthetic requirements. I'll never forget the "crane day", as Dale likes to call it, watching him and his spirited team raise the Ancaster barn once again on our property to create a new chapter in our lives. The craftsmanship and attention to detail Dale brings to the table is only rivaled by the original barn builders themselves. We just couldn't be any happier with our experience with AWCR.

John Holland, Jackson Hole WY

   Dale Lehmer, owner of Antique Woods and Colonial Restorations (AWCR), has been working with antique barns and homes all across America for over 34 years now. He started working full time taking down barns in 1974 to sell the siding and beams that became popular for home restorations at that time. Over the years, he has literally dismantled over a thousand barns, log and timber-frame homes, churches, covered bridges, train stations, privies, and other assorted sheds and early structures. 

   After several years of dismantling and studying these structures, he completed the cycle and started rebuilding them as homes, offices, stores, art galleries, mills, horse barns, and many other creative re-uses of these magnificent historical artifacts. His firm has helped to design and rebuild barn- home conversions, timber frame additions and numerous antique log homes and other colonial structures. 

   Dale's love and knowledge of early structures and antique woods are clearly evident if you take the time to browse through our photo section of just a small portion of the work that he has done over the years.

  Today there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of folks in the barn and reclaimed lumber business, some of whom were Dale's understudies over the years. There are only a few with the vast experience, knowledge and skill that is developed from a lifetime of dedicated work that Dale can offer.

  AWCR knows barns and early structures. They know what can be done with them, how to cost effectively rebuild them, convert them to many different uses, and how to incorporate other antique lumbers into the overall theme. They can help you find a truly magnificent barn frame or a log house and work with you on design and architectural drawings to convert it into your dream home or other use. And of course, Dale and crew can rebuild the structure for you and take it to any level you wish.

   AWCR invites you to look through this web site and discover for yourself if AWCR could be of service to you. Over the years Dale has attempted to keep the prices within a range that is affordable for middle class Americans. Even though they have worked for many of the "rich and famous", but mostly they have worked for the average American people.

   And perhaps even a better way to discover if AWCR is the firm you would like to use for your design and building needs - Dale invites you to call him personally (315-286-4847). Talk with him for a while, tell him what you are looking for, what questions you have, what concerns - and then decide if this is perhaps the firm for you.