I am pleased to be working with architectural historian and preservationist Elric J. Endersby, of the New Jersey Barn Company, to find a home for his extensive collection of archival materials, including extensive documentary drawings of timber frame structures.
Elric J. Endersby
Architectural historian and preservationist Elric J. Endersby is seeking one or more appropriate institutions to house the archival materials which record his life’s work and include extensive and culturally invaluable documentation of vernacular architecture.
Endersby is widely recognized as an expert in early-American architecture focused on mid-Atlantic houses, barns and outbuildings, and as a leading practitioner in the field of historic preservation. Over the course of a lengthy and active career he has continuously documented barns and timber frame buildings, resulting in an extensive and singularly important collection of photographs, and thousands of measured architectural drawings that comprise a unique historical record of 700 structures, many now destroyed.
Endersby is seeking a receptive institution that can provide material assistance and guidance in the conservation, inventorying, archiving, and digitization of his materials, which he hopes to see preserved and made available for historians, practitioners, and enthusiasts.
– From Archive Description Document
The images below provide a glimpse into the work that Elric Endersby and the New Jersey Barn Company have done to preserve and restore timber frame barns. They include measured documentary drawings, photographic documentation of original structures, snapshots of the preservation process, published materials, original sketches, and more. (For now, these images are provided without necessary context. We are working on presentations that will provide more useful information.)
