Restoration & Adaptive Reuse Blog Posts

Quarry View Building Group Wins Prestigious C. Emlen Urban Award for Adaptive Reuse Project

by Laurel Charney | Friday June 21, 2024 | Restoration & Adaptive Reuse

“After years of vacancy and dilapidation, this property posed quite the exciting challenge…” Ben King, along with his brothers Levi & Chris and Ben Stoltzfus – owners of Quarry View Building Group, had the vision to transform a historic farmstead…



Adaptive Reuse 1800's barn restoration project in PA

Barn Renovation in Montgomery County

by Paul Bahn | Friday August 25, 2023 | Case Studies

Per Whitpain Township historical records, this property was previously known as the McCracken Residence and farmstead. Earliest accounts indicate that the original construction of the barn was 1785 along with its three sister buildings. The three sister buildings were a…



Overview of farmstead with farmhouse and in-laws quarters under construction, newly constructed tobacco barn, and 1911 barn being restored.

Project Update: Adaptive Reuse of our Historic Farmstead

by Laurel Charney | Friday December 9, 2022 | Restoration & Adaptive Reuse

Chris, one of the three founding brothers and superintendent & project manager of our future office & shop project, has an exciting update to share: Tobacco Barn The new “tobacco barn” construction is almost complete. After adding the hooks for…



Award Winning Barn Project

by Pennsylvania Builders Association | Sunday August 7, 2022 | Restoration & Adaptive Reuse

PBA’s Community Service Project of 2021: Schwenkfelder Historic Barn Restoration The Schwenkfelder Historic Barn Restoration is an award-winning project – it’s an honor to preserve pieces of local history! For years, the Seipt family dreamed of donating their barn, originally built…



Schwenkfelder Barn Move / Restoration

by Jeff Reimold | Friday August 20, 2021 | Restoration & Adaptive Reuse

It’s a rare opportunity to move an old barn to a new site, 20 miles from where it was originally built in the 1820’s! Our construction team dismantled the barn, beam-by-beam, carefully marked each piece, and moved it to the…



Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center Barn Rebuild

by Craig Hoffman | Friday November 1, 2019 | Restoration & Adaptive Reuse

Old is new again at the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center. They’ve partnered with Quarry View Building Group to dismantle, transport and rebuild an early-19th century barn as part of a major expansion of their facility in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Schwenkfelder…