Barn Raising Antiques

About Barn Raising Antiques

Barn Raising Antiques now selling as pjgal2000 on eBay specializing in Antique Primitives, Antique Dolls and Vintage Child Collectibles and Salesman Samples.

We specialize in Antique Dolls, bisque, composition and tiny "Frozen Charlottes and Frozen Charlie" dolls, primitive furniture, salesman sample/child sized antique furniture pieces and other vintage children's items.

The shop is set up with child size table settings, hutches, doll beds, wash stands, etc. with Antique Dolls, tiny vintage linens and tea sets all displayed on authenic child size antiques.

How did we get the name Barn Raising??

Our first business, THE BARN RAISING, began in 1980 in an old barn we moved to our property. The business is now located in a 1895 Dry Goods Store in the quaint village of Rutledge Georgia.

Let me introduce myself, I am Pam Jones an antiques dealer and collector, quilter and eBay seller. If you would like to view my current auctions running on eBay with pictures click here: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZpjgal2000 Also look for the link to my new buyers guide on eBay for RARE "Frozen Charlotte and Frozen Charlie" antique dolls click here: http://reviews.ebay.com/Frozen-Charlotte-And-Charlie-Antique-Doll-Buyers-Guide_W0QQugidZ10000000000915405

My husband Paul owns and operates the 100 year old Rutledge Hardware store in Rutledge. He builds 18th Century Furniture Reproductions in the back warehouse area when he isn't waiting on customers or visiting with them around the old pot belly stove.

His pieces include Heart Pine Huntboards, Linen Press/Entertainment Centers, Corner Cupboards, Trunks, Tables, Beds, etc all done in Milk Paint finishes. They have been featured in the magazine Country Living among others. His Barn Raising creations can be found for sale and display in stores up and down the East coast from Georgia to Connecticut.

Folks visiting the hardware store enjoy looking through the old double doors into the back warehouse area and watching Paul as he brings his hand-crafted 18th century furniture pieces to life.

We came by the name Barn Raising naturally since our creations (Paul's furniture and my quilts) were originally "raised" in a barn. We were well established as the Barn Raising when we made our move to town so we kept the name.


Breaking NEWS!

Barn Raising Antiques Blog

11 Alive News visits Rutledge's 30th annual "Christmas in the Country"
http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=137799

Enjoy the story and video online of 11 Alive anchor Valerie Hoff's Ways to Save segment on the 30th annual Rutledge "Christmas in the Country" event Nov. 20th - 22nd 2009.

Many thanks to Val and company for this!!



Our 100+ year old Rutledge Hardware and former shop Barn Raising Antiques, were featured in an article in the New York Times escape section on Antiquing in the Old South on Friday November 28th. The article was featured online and in the Times newspaper. The article can still be seen online at this link

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/travel/escapes/28american.html?partner=permalink&exprod;=permalink

along with three pages of photos of our shop, page 4, 5 $ 6 of the 16 page slide show at

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/11/28/travel/escapes/1128-AMER_6.html

Here is an excerpt from the NY TIMES article by Nick Kaye:

Once you’ve sufficiently traversed Atlanta, head to the countryside. Drive east over rolling hills for about 50 miles on Interstate 20 and take Exit 101 to Route 278/12. Out there, the urban scenery gives way to wide cotton fields and farmland studded with hay bales.

In tiny Rutledge, whose main intersection is an old oil drum with four stop signs sticking out of its top, head for a shop called the Barn Raising, where Pam Jones sells items like a late 19th-century German doll by Armand Marseille ($225). Also on display are 18th-century furniture reproductions made by her husband, Paul, whom you’ll find next door at an old hardware store. It has been nearly 25 years since the Joneses first took up business here in a row of historic storefronts with facades dotted by flourishes of ironwork shaped like stars and Indian heads.

In 1997, the couple jumped at the chance to buy the hardware store, which had been in continuous operation since the late 1800s, and promptly found themselves amid “layers of history,” Ms. Jones said. One item they discovered while digging through the store was a Cole Boll Weevil Killer — an old piece of farm equipment that used