Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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82 SPRING 2020 W HEN LESLIE PFERCHY AND HER HUSBAND wanted to build a lakeside vacation home in New Hampshire, they went looking for the right builder. Some didn't get back to them; others had design philosophies that just didn't match up with what they envisioned. Then they called Yankee Barn Homes. They'd worked with a designer from the company eight years earlier when they first considered building a second home. shop nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ C0-owner Jeffrey Rosen says attention to detail is part of the company's success. When they reached back out, they knew immediately they had made the right decision. Not only did Yankee Barn still have the couple's old plans on file, the company was eager to modify them for a different lot. The designer they worked with regularly sent them hand-drawn layouts she quickly sketched after waking up in the middle of the night with a fresh idea. "They were right there with us and excited about our dreams," Pferchy says. "It was an amazing journey with them." It is this sort of connection with customers, attention to detail, and passion for their work that has propelled Yankee Barn Homes through 50 years of successful business, says co-owner Jeffrey Rosen. The company began in 1969, when founder Emil Hanslin envisioned a new way of doing post-and-beam construction: Instead of building the whole home on site, he would create large component pieces that could P H O T O G R A P H S B Y C H R I S F O S T E R ( R I G H T ) , B Y M A I N F R A M E P H O T O G R A P H Y ( L E F T )