This Old Shop IsBorn Again:Five days after it was purchased, the building fell under heavy snow. But a shared dream and skilled craftsmanship brought this Renew and Reuse winner back to life

摘要

Larry Crowder shared dozens of cups of coffee with Clinton Krause. Krause, who was 95 when Crowder met him four years ago, often lamented the severe deterioration of the Quonset-style building he had built for his trucking business in 1966.The building, just off a rutted gravel road at the edge of Bowdon, N.D., population 131, had been bought and sold several times during the years. Decades of tough Dakota weather and a lack of repair had taken a hard toll. The 36- x 56-foot structure sagged 4 feet in the middle. Krause saw it every day. The man who once hauled home with horses the wreck that would become his first truck, who had once earned a dollar a day cutting firewood, could not abide it. Crowder saw there was good potential in renewal. New to the community (his wife, Pauline, an ordained Lutheran pastor, had been called here to minister to three small churches), Crowder was looking for a warm shop torepair equipment and feed his tractor-restoration habit.Larry and Pauline decided to buy the building Krause built. Crowder's plan was to lift the center, pull the sides of the building back into place and replace the rotted sills.