Restoration of heritage building at pioneer village in Ontario wins provincial award [Video]

A $600,000 restoration project at Pickering Museum Village has been awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation.

The 2024 restoration of the museum’s log house and log barn – both built in 1830 and moved to Pickering Museum Village in 1972 – was completed last year by B.A. Construction, with the total cost of the project coming in just over $600,000, with the net cost to the city pegged at $545,180.

The Log Barn and Log House are the oldest buildings on the museum site.

The log barn was built in the small German settlement of Denbigh, north of Kaladar in eastern Ontario. The structure consists of two barns seamlessly joined together, featuring hand-hewn squared timber construction and dovetail corners. Early wooden pegs, known as trenails, were whittled by hand to secure the frames together. These are visible at the top of the door frames and …