Completed Projects

Below are some of the many restoration projects we have completed from homes to event centers to commercial buildings and Airbnb's. Many of our projects are featured on the TV show Restoration Road, streaming and on cable TV on the Magnolia/Discovery network.

Our restored homes and buildings come from wide historical backgrounds between about 1700 and 1910. They include homes from the Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival and Victorian periods along with mills and other outbuildings like equipment barns and even corn cribs. They also come from varied national backgrounds since the settlers that built them hailed from many different countries and brought their indigenous building methods and styles with them to America. This is particularly pronounced in the buildings that come from the Hudson Valley of New York and its tributaries, which the Dutch originally settled and allowed many different people to join them.

The historic buildings we save can be re-designed in many styles from historically accurate restorations to interpretations with modern designs and finishes. The possibilities are unlimited. We have repurposed these historic buildings into homes, guesthouses, offices, hotels, event centers and just about any use you can make of a building. We can design your project for you or work with the designer or architect you have. Or you can even design it yourself!

The timing of a project depends on its size and preparation time in planning and permitting. Give us a call, we will be glad to share more with you about the process and love to hear your dreams.

The Brink House

Windham, New York

Located in the Catskill Mountains in beautiful Windham, New York on 5.4 acres, this unique and historic house has no comparison in America. It was built by the first pioneer Dutch family to the Hudson Valley at Saugerties.

We relocated this all-stone house in 2021 and completed the meticulous restoration in 2022. The total footage is 2,000 square feet and features all original wide floorboards, massive beams, leaded glass windows, and all hand-crafted doors, stairs, cabinetry and woodwork. Though this house is 279 years old, it has completely new utilities, heating, air conditioning, appliances and is completely energy efficient.

From the hand-split cedar shake roof down to the hand wrought nails, this house is a rare piece of pioneer America.

Waco, Texas

We restored and relocated the Mohawk Valley Inn to Waco, Texas as the perfect accommodation for those looking for a truly unique vacation experience. You can view the entire restoration process, documented as part of the Magnolia Network show Restoration Road, on the Discovery network.

The home is available as both a full house reservation of four suites, or as single suites.

Waco, Texas

This hand-hewn timber frame is home to Waco Waffle Company’s notable chicken and waffles. Sweet and savory recipes topped with unique ingredients are served at this Waco breakfast spot. Top your waffle off with a fried egg, or fruits, ice cream and whipped cream and more. Healthy alternatives are also offered for those with common food allergies. For weekend outings, you are welcome to stop by after dinner for desert. They serve Blue Bell ice cream.

Operating hours: Monday through Saturday from 7am – 11:30am and Friday through Saturday from 5:30pm-8:30pm.

Waco, Texas

The idea for this 1,200 sq. foot boathouse came about when the Waco Rowing Club needed a home for its rowing boats.

Deary, Idaho

The 1840 Tamarack Barn was built near the historic Mohawk River in New York. It is a classic English-framed barn with heavy, hand-hewn hemlock wood timbers. It has a king-sized bed in the loft and a queen sofa bed in the living room. Surrounded by tall pine trees, it is located outside the town of Deary, Idaho near Moscow, Idaho, home of the University of Idaho and nearby Washington State University. Deary serves as an outdoor wonderland of mountains and rivers, with some of the best hiking and mountain biking trails. It is also known for world-class trout, salmon, and steelhead fishing and big game hunting, as well as the gateway to the Bitterroot Wilderness, the largest wilderness area in the forty-eight states. When in Deary, be sure to visit the Pie Safe Bakery and the nationally award-winning Brush Creek Creamery, makers of many of the finest artisan cheeses in North America.

Windham, New York

Dutch home Windham project

The 1783 Augustus Peck House

Deary, Idaho

We carefully dismantled, moved, and restored this house, originally built in 1783 in Connecticut, to Deary, Idaho in 2020 as part of the Magnolia Network Restoration Road TV show.

The house sleeps six. It features original hand-hewn oak timbers, hand-planed doors and woodwork, 12-over-12 pane windows, and a working brick pizza oven.

Windham, New York

This cape house, built about 1840, stands in Windham, NY. The hemlock timber frame is very heavy and all hand-hewn. We restored it in place first by raising it up and putting a full basement under it. We then completely opened the floor plan up on the inside to reveal all the interior beams and installed all new windows.

Windham, New York

Located in the Catskill Mountain town of Windham, New York, this spacious weekend home is built from a local 30 by 40 foot English-framed barn dating to the 1830s. It includes a full walkout basement, first floor of baths and bedrooms and the main living area on the second floor to catch the mountain views. A wrap around deck, breezeway and garage complete the project with 4,200 sq. feet of living space.

We enclosed the frame in insulated SIP panels to guarantee maximum energy efficiency and topped the house off with a custom made cupola.

Waco, Texas

This guesthouse is made from heavy hemlock timbers and features a sleeping loft accessed by a spiral staircase. The steep-pitched roof allows for plenty of overhead space in the loft bedroom. The compact, but full, kitchen is convenient to prepare meals in and the bath includes a large shower. And all of this in only a 25 by 17 foot area making 425 sq. feet.

Waco, Texas

The barn for this home came from Oneonta, New York. Built in 1849 and measuring 26 by 34 feet, it is a hand-hewn English-framed hemlock barn.

We used it as the great room/dining room and did some unusual exterior finishes. Having a lot of old Vermont slate off of a barn roof, we sided the upper part of the barn with it and then stuccoed below that. We also used corrugated metal on the gable sides and back and installed a standing seam metal roof.

Off to the left is the master bedroom that has a vaulted ceiling with antique beams. The interior floor is re-purposed barn siding and the back glass curtain wall opens the barn up to a view overlooking a forested ravine.

Located in Texas, the house is so well insulated that we cool it with just two split units.

Waco, Texas

We searched for an historic gristmill and found this one in central New Jersey, thinking it dated to about 1840. Upon closer study, we found that it had been altered around that time and actually dated to before 1760. The roof had been raised a full story and the building overall extended when they remodeled it in the mid-19^th century. When we found it, it had been neglected and needed a new life. Dismantling it in 2000, we restored its equipment and chestnut frame back to its 1760 size and shape, retaining the original small-paned windows and gambrel roof.

Several years later we learned more of the history of this mill when the original site became a park. It turned out that the builder and miller, Captain John Mott, served as a militia captain in the Revolutionary War, and George Washington chose him to guide his forces across the Delaware River on Christmas Day 1776 when he attacked the Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey, a major victory that gave his inexperienced American forces hope that they could turn the tide of the war.

Today, the Mott Mill’s stones still grind many varieties of grain into flour used in fine restaurants and homes across Texas and around the country.

Waco, Texas

This is our cheese shop, located in Waco, where we make award-winning artisan hard and soft cheeses from both raw and pasteurized cow’s milk. We used a heavy, hardwood timbered barn from Ontario to build this shop.

Visit the Brazos Valley Cheese website.

Waco, Texas

No building epitomizes the American frontier more than the log cabin, and we often think of the Scots-Irish settlers like the Daniel Boones and Davey Crocketts as the ones who originally built them. But these pioneers actually learned the art of log cabin building from the Swedes who settled on the Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the 1600s. They then took this form of construction West with them as they explored over the Appalachian Mountains into the Mississippi River Valley in the 1800s.

We moved this particular cabin from Missouri to Texas for use as a basketry shop. It features dovetailed corner joints, oak beams and a big fireplace for warm fires on cold winter days.

The La Rue Barn

Waco, Texas

This barn dates to 1760 and was the second one we ever dismantled. An usual feature of this barn is the overhead curved, or cruck braces, made from bent limbs of oak trees. This use of crucks is rarely seen in American buildings, and indeed the builder was the LaRue Family, Huguenots from France, who must have learned the use of crucks in Europe. Originally located in New Jersey at a house where George Washington stayed during the Revolutionary War so, we make the claim that “George Washington’s horse slept here!”

Waco, Texas

This house originally came from Middleburgh, New York and is an early Palatine German house from about 1770 that survived the bitter events of the Revolutionary War in that area including the 1780 British raid that burned 800 houses and barns in the Schoharie Valley.

General Store

Waco, Texas

We built this barn as home for our General Store from two New York barns dating to about 1790, and located in their previous lives right next to each other. Here you can find everything from newly hatched chicks to books on sustainability to farm and garden tools and feed.

Visit the General Store website.

Waco, Texas

“The Barn” craft retail shop at Homestead Heritage in Waco will always be dear to our hearts as it was our first barn relocation and restoration project. The story behind it is serendipitous as I was searching for a barn and a friend in Bergen County New Jersey told me about this one, and it just so happened that the owner wanted to find a new home for it when I happened to call. This is the barn that we “broke our teeth on” and since then we have restored hundreds more.

Built about 1840, The Barn actually is a rare Dutch-English hybrid barn that incorporates both the Dutch New York and English New England timber framing traditions. Measuring 36 by 46 feet, its longest oak timbers are 46 feet long! Much of this barn is made of American chestnut wood that is now nearly extinct.

Today, The Barn is visited by thousands of people every month where it displays the workmanship of the many craftsmen and women at Homestead Heritage. Don’t miss it if you go to Waco!

Waco, Texas

Though this timber frame originated in New York, the Heritage Fiber Crafts shop exemplifies an unusual form of timber framing brought to Texas in the 1840s, by German immigrants to the Texas hill country, northwest of San Antonio.

Known as fachwerk or infilled timber framing, it leaves the timber faces exposed on both the inside and outside of the building, resulting in a very Medieval European look and giving a wonderful contrast to all the colorful skeins of wool on the inside.

Waco, Texas

Located right next to Brazos Valley Cheese in Waco, the Heritage Complex includes a restaurant, artisan cheese shop, fresh ground coffee and much more in the setting of a nineteenth century Canadian barn surrounded by Brazos Valley Farm. There are few places as tranquil as this.

Waco, Texas

Located in downtown Waco, I found this house with a red sticker on it, meaning it was scheduled to be demolished. But I saw the two chimneys and knew it must be an historic house, so I tracked down the owners, purchased the house and Jake and I set about the restoration process.

First, I researched the history to find that the first owner worked for the Magnolia Brewing Company out of Houston and built the house in 1894, thus the name (with apologies to Chip and Joanna) The Magnolia House. Jake demolished later additions and stripped the interior and exterior later add-ons.

The result shines as a Victorian Period southern house with all bead board interior, modern kitchen, huge master bathroom and two fireplaces. We restored the original heart pine floors and found other posts for the front porch. Under the back steps we even discovered the original hand-dug, brick-lined well.

You can find the Magnolia House listed on Airbnb.

Crust and Cream

Our unique pizza restaurant, Crust and Cream, grew out of our sustainable farming to provide a unique dining experience that connects farm-to-table like nowhere else. We grow the wheat for the crust and also make the cheese and ice cream right here at our Brazos Valley Creamery, using our water-powered mill to grind the wheat into flour and churn the cream into ice cream. And, in season, you can pick your own pizza toppings right here! We then bake your pizza to perfection in our wood-fired brick oven.

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