Apple Has Finished Moving and Precisely Reassembling a Historic Barn At Its New Headquarters

[IJ Reilly]

Interesting article ... I thought the barn only had an historical agriculture significance. I didn't know that it had some meaning to Hewlett-Packard as well ...

" Once spruced up, the 1,900-square-foot barn became a focal point of company social life, the site of the annual picnic, retiree reunions and frequent “beer busts,”

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True, but I don't know that the HP connection fed into the requirement to preserve the barn. The HP associations were less than 50 years ago, and I explained above, 50 years is the conventional minimum for considering events to be potentially historic. The barn was on a city list of historic properties because of its connection to one of the valley's early settlement families. Probably very little of this agricultural heritage exists so that tends to make the rare survivors more important.
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Yes, but you could say it's a recreation seeing as it's now in a different place and has been reassembled effectively making it no longer the original barn.

Using the terms of art in historic preservation, a re-creation (called: reconstruction) is the duplication of a building that no longer exists. This barn did exist, so technically what they did is called relocation and restoration/rehabilitation.

 

[tkermit]

No. DogCows

Finally, a new home

 

[LizKat]

I've lived in a building older than this.
There are lots of renovated old apartment buildings in those parts of Germany where WW II bombing wasn't too bad.

My handyman special, no more than a cottage of the sort farmers retire to when they give the farming over to the next generation, was built sometime around 1865; the area was settled in the early 1800s and the cemetery up the road has gravestones from our Revolution. The wall studs are beech, which had just about turned to steel after all this time. We laughed taking coffee breaks while renovating the stairwell, looking at the square-headed nails, wondering if the people who hammered those nails in had had to take a break too. Aged beech is definitely the wood of the resistance!

I think it's cool that Apple saw to a painstaking effort to preserve the Glendenning Barn on their new campus.

 

[apolloa]

Sigh... should have painted it white and stuck the letters P and O and L and O on the top.....

 

[Bigsk8r]

As a Brit, I find if funny how Americans refer to things built in the early 20th Century as 'historic'

As an American, this cracks me up as well. I travel somewhat regularly. When I stayed at the Cromwell in Stevenage, I was staying in a building that was older than my country. That's historic.

 

[CarlJ]

As a Brit, I find if funny how Americans refer to things built in the early 20th Century as 'historic'

I saw this recently, it's quite fitting:

America: where 100 years is a long time.
England: where 100 miles is a long distance.​

 

[Will do good]

As a Brit, I find if funny how Americans refer to things built in the early 20th Century as 'historic'

As a Chinese, I find it funny both the Brit and Americans refer things build from the past century or two as 'historic'

 

[kdarling]

WeMoveSheds.com/historic

Cute

Seriously, what would you do with that information?
Just wondering.

Seriously, why do you care?

I think that it'd be a far more accurate and interesting story. E.g.

"Apple hires best building mover in the country to precisely disassemble and reassemble historic Cupertino barn. Here's how they did it..."

 

[pkissel]

They've renamed it however to the "iBarn". Get it? Groan...

 

[velocityg4]

How do they get all the vehicles out of the centre bit of the spaceship?!

Build a giant ramp and jump them out like Evil Knievel.

 

[macduke]

Take my upvote on a slow news day…

Haha thanks. It happens.

 

[bbplayer5]

2017 will be a great year for Apple. I think there will be quite a few keynotes at Steve Jobs theater, Hope it's ready by the iPhone 8 Launch. That will be interesting to watch ;-)

Going AMOLED on their phones is enough to be honest. All the other stuff they are going to throw in will be icing. The display on the iPhones is the ONLY thing lacking at this point (minus samsung pay which is effing awesome).

 

[nsayer]

This and other articles make it sound like Apple itself took apart and reassembled the barn.

They paid for it. I think that means they get some credit.

 

[Thunderhawks]

Cute

Seriously, why do you care?

I think that it'd be a far more accurate and interesting story. E.g.

"Apple hires best building mover in the country to precisely disassemble and reassemble historic Cupertino barn. Here's how they did it..."

I think it deserves a movie on channel 13 or a series on the history channel.
Also, nobody has mentioned the horrid protruding bump under the roof pitch.

 

[nsayer]

Probably very little of this agricultural heritage exists so that tends to make the rare survivors more important.

About all there is now is the Corn Palace on Lawrence just south of Central.

Someday that little corn field is going to be worth 8 figures.

 

[c0ppo]

Words often have multiple meanings and may rely on context.

Yes, lots of places are older than this barn, but the term "historic" is being used relative to its place and function in western Santa Clara Valley. Even the previous owner HP decided the barn merited treatment to be restored earlier in its life.

And I'm sure somewhere someone is calling something that is newer than this barn "historic" or "old."

Things don't get old if people are ripping them down after a few years. Who knows, someday this barn might be 300 years old.

You see that smiley at the end of my post? Relax dude, don't take forum posts too seriously

 

[J InTech82]

It'll look really good once the grass has grown.

I think that every time I see one of guess videos!

 

[Jimmy James]

How do they get all the vehicles out of the centre bit of the spaceship?!

Invisible beam.

 

[MachCrit]

They’ll use it to motivate tardy project managers. One trip to The Barn will refocus them.

 

[kdarling]

They paid for it. I think that means they get some credit.

Absolutely. Same as how I get credit with my wife for cleaning the yard, by paying someone else to do it

Although, fortunately I'm not pushed to do so by some historical society. If I were, then I wouldn't get much credit for doing something I had no choice in.

 

[^^BIGMac]

Been seeing more and more 'drone' movies and for the most part they all seem to look the same.

That is to say they're actually kind of boring. Only so much you can do with aerial views. After a while...meh.

 

[Bart Kela]

You see that smiley at the end of my post? Relax dude, don't take forum posts too seriously

You're right, I didn't notice the smiley. Sorry about that, I guess I'm too used to seeing inane comments in these sort of threads.


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Been seeing more and more 'drone' movies and for the most part they all seem to look the same.

That is to say they're actually kind of boring. Only so much you can do with aerial views. After a while...meh.

Well, no one is forcing you to watch them. No one can please everyone all the time.

If you don't care for drone videography, look for something else on the Internet that suits your tastes. No one here will give you grief about not watching a drone video of a construction site.

I feel the same way about seeing people's Instagrams of their last beverage from Starbucks, etc.

 

[CarlJ]

How do they get all the vehicles out of the centre bit of the spaceship?!

That'll happen when they try the first hover test of the spaceship campus. Once it's about 100 feet off the ground, it'll be easy to drive all that stuff out.

 

[Piggie]

The roof on that historic barn did not look very historic I must admit.

 

[joelisfar]

I'm just going to leave this here.

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