The Schloessers have a couple of reasons for building their home and barn. They want to move out of their small construction trailer and into their own home, with running water. And the barn and house ...

Though the barn’s wooden roof collapsed in 1993, its stone walls remain standing in the early twenty-first century. Frank Schott was born in 1880 in Lestkov, Bohemia (the Czech Republic since 1993).

Mike Hudson, standing in the hayloft of his current barn project, says he will deconstruct about 10 to 12 barns in the next year. He sells the reclaimed wood at his lumberyard in Elbert, Colo.