BuickFarmer
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Buick Sales and Service Garage
FINALLY getting time to share my new build with the great folks here on GJ. I retired last March from construction project management with the county public works engineering and have spent most of the last year trying to wittle down the honeydew list and beginning the demolition of old farm buildings, grading for and the build of the Buick Sales and Service Garage.
The build will basically be a 40X40X12 pole barn with a lap siding stepped false front that was typical on 1920-30's era car dealership/service garages. Many early car dealers came from the ranks of men involved in the horse related trades such as carriage sales, livery stable operators and blacksmiths. These merchants and tradesmen often engaged in automobile sales and services as sidelines and eventually turned their operations into full scale auto sales and service businesses. Many of the early dealerships also served as a gas station and garage. The materials used on the fronts of the early buildings were usually wood lap, vertical board and batten or metal siding. Later buildings were more of a masonry type construction.
I am a 1954 Buick enthusiast and I currently have 3 low mileage original condition and one restored ’54 Buick. Bought my first one in 1972 and have had one ever since. The building will be used to house and work on them. I initially considered building a 40-50's art deco style building but since my wife and I have spent the last 27 years building our Victorian farm house style home, barn and gardens, we decided to stay with that general theme.
Before jumping into telling about and showing the actual work that has been going on over the last few months, let me try and set the mood for the build with some old photos of buildings of the period.
Here is what I first considered, but totally not in the style of the rest of our buildings. (Them are '54 Buicks in the picture by the way)
These represent more the spirit or feel of what we like.
One of my favorites V
and my very favorite V
FINALLY getting time to share my new build with the great folks here on GJ. I retired last March from construction project management with the county public works engineering and have spent most of the last year trying to wittle down the honeydew list and beginning the demolition of old farm buildings, grading for and the build of the Buick Sales and Service Garage.
The build will basically be a 40X40X12 pole barn with a lap siding stepped false front that was typical on 1920-30's era car dealership/service garages. Many early car dealers came from the ranks of men involved in the horse related trades such as carriage sales, livery stable operators and blacksmiths. These merchants and tradesmen often engaged in automobile sales and services as sidelines and eventually turned their operations into full scale auto sales and service businesses. Many of the early dealerships also served as a gas station and garage. The materials used on the fronts of the early buildings were usually wood lap, vertical board and batten or metal siding. Later buildings were more of a masonry type construction.
I am a 1954 Buick enthusiast and I currently have 3 low mileage original condition and one restored ’54 Buick. Bought my first one in 1972 and have had one ever since. The building will be used to house and work on them. I initially considered building a 40-50's art deco style building but since my wife and I have spent the last 27 years building our Victorian farm house style home, barn and gardens, we decided to stay with that general theme.
Before jumping into telling about and showing the actual work that has been going on over the last few months, let me try and set the mood for the build with some old photos of buildings of the period.
Here is what I first considered, but totally not in the style of the rest of our buildings. (Them are '54 Buicks in the picture by the way)
These represent more the spirit or feel of what we like.
One of my favorites V
and my very favorite V
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But I get to live in a progressive state.
