New Jersey

John Bloom Barn Ell (Holland Township Barn Survey #68), Holland Township, New Jersey (40.575171, -75.190370)

(a) Reused Timbers from ground barn Felling Dates: Summer 1841, Winter 1840/1, Summer 1836

Site Master 1717-1840 (yellow pine) JBNJx1 (t = 11.79 BRNJx1; 10.77 PA001; 9.45 CT002). Individual Timber 1689-1840 (yellow pine) jbnj1 (t = 8.90 PA011; 7.97 CT001; 6.80 PA010).

The John Bloom Barn in Holland Township, New Jersey, is a complex structure comprised of a large Pennsylvania forebay bank barn with an attached two-story, three-bent ground barn that creates an “ell configuration” lining the barnyard on the northwest side. Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the ell portion of the building was constructed from reused timbers felled in the summer of 1836, the winter of 1840/1, and the summer of 1841.

Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2021 “The Tree-Ring Dating of the John Bloom Barn Ell (Holland Township Barn Survey #68), Holland Township, New Jersey" unpublished Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory archive report 2021/23

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