Special Projects - Hahn's Woodworking Co.

NEW YORK Enter Through Doors by Hahn’s And Ride the Empire State Carousel Water slides, theme parks -- these are mainstream today. But how many new carousels do you know that were recently constructed? On Memorial Day weekend 2006, the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, NY, celebrated the grand opening of the beautifully handcrafted Empire State Carousel. The full-sized merry-go-round presents the history, culture and environment of New York State through extraordinary hand-carved riding animals and contemporary folk art, and is musically accompanied by a grand wagon-mounted pipe organ. Housing this wealth of talent and history is a handsome pavilion designed by Altonview Architects, PC of Cooperstown, NY. An important aspect of the pavilion is its open-air feeling, achieved through the use of nine arched overhead operating doors specially designed and built by Hahn’s Woodworking Company. Knowing that Hahn’s Woodworking prides itself in working collaboratively to create custom doors that best suit the project, the architects approached Hahn’s with an unusal set of demands. When the overhead operating doors are in the open mode, they must rise up into a very limited space, where they are concealed from the carousel riders behind a sloped ceiling. In addition, an after-hours emergency entry system was needed, consisting of a personnel door with adjacent side lites, constructed to look just like one of the tri-panel overhead operating doors. And finally, two additional fixed door blanks were needed to balance the design scheme. “Cooperstown’s design emulates the style of carousel pavilions of my youth. They had awning-like windows that would swing in and latch to the sloped ceiling," explains Roger Jurczak, National Sales Manager for Hahn’s Woodworking Company, who grew up an area where three difference carousels were available for riding. "But this one uses the motor driven Hahn's doors to make visible the historic merry-go-round and allow the pipe organ music to quaff the surrounding ears and provide ventilation to those enjoying the ride."

NEW JERSEY Two Historical Renovation Projects Enlist Hahn's Woodworking Company It's no wonder that when historic sites are being preserved, Hahn's Woodworking is called into action. Recently, two historic preservation projects in New Jersey selected Hahn's products to match the historical period of the original structures. Relief Hose Company No. 2 Engine House, located in Raritan (one block south of Route 22), is being preserved with a grant from the Somerset County Historic Preservation Grant Program. The fire house project was designed by the architects at Ford, Farewell, Mills & Gatch (Princeton, NJ). Hahn's fabricated the engine bay's large, overhead-operating door to resemble the original swing-out doors. Installed in the historic building in November 2003, the Hahn's door is in near daily use when the resident fire truck is called into service. Twenty miles northeast in Madison, NJ, Hahn's products are featured in the historic Madison Train Station, home of the Morris and Essex line, where the first train arrived in 1837. Watertrol, a major renovator of historic public buildings, originally contacted Hahn's Woodworking to fabricate the arch-top double doors for the vaulted lobby (pictured at right). Eventually several other doors in the train station were built by Hahn's to replicate designs of the original architect, including doors to the train platform, trainmaster's office, taxi office, and restrooms. Hahn's also replicated bi-fold doors to a restored phone booth -- the original phone booth was discovered hiding behind a wall during the renovation.		Hahn's overhead-operating engine bay door adds to the facelift of Raritan's No. 2 Engine House. Above, Hahn's double arched doors lend historic authenticity to the refurbished train station in Madison, New Jersey. Hahn's Woodworking has also supplied historically-accurate doors to the Lafayette Square Fire Station in Cambridge, MA and the Ship Bottom (NJ) Volunteer Fire Company. Other restoration projects Hahn's has fabricated doors for include Fort Wetherill in Rhode Island, George Washington High School in Harlem, NY, and The Lemon, a restaurant in New York City. Hahn's Woodworking, Inc. was an exhibitor at the Restoration and Renovation Conference in Boston in April 2004.

MASSACHUSETTS THIS OLD HOUSE® Project Features Historically Accurate Garage Doors by Hahn's Woodworking THIS OLD HOUSE®, TV's premiere show for home renovators, selected a 1922 Colonial Revival home in Winchester, MA, for a recent overhaul project. And the home's detached, two-car garage became an important project for Hahn's Woodworking, Inc., as well. "Since the first time we saw the house, our thoughts were not about what we want to change, but rather about how much we want to keep it the same as it originally looked," says Kim Whittemore, the current homeowner. Explains Scott Hahn, President of Hahn's Woodworking Company, Inc., "They gave us a drawing of the original garage doors, and we designed sectional overhead doors that exactly mimic the old swing doors' appearance." The new custom-designed doors feature the historic elements of proportion and design of the 1920's doors, and are built with the precision and long-lasting qualities of all Hahn's products. While the deteriorated doors of the old garage swung out in traditional fashion, the new Hahn's doors are electrically operated, sectional overhead doors. The house and garage exteriors may appear unchanged, but the doors designed by Hahn's provide a delightful and distinctive welcome to the owners every time they park their cars. This is not the first time sectional overhead doors designed by Hahn's Woodworking have been featured on the PBS television show THIS OLD HOUSE®		BEFORE (above): The detached garage, added in 1923, is actually located to the right of the house (behind red truck). The original swingout doors were replaced in the 1950's with overhead doors. AND AFTER: The owners adore their newly installed, historically accurate, sectional overhead doors by Hahn's Woodworking. Though they look like traditional swing out doors, the magic is in their overhead operation.
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Hahn's Woodworking Company was proud to be one of the sponsors of the “Not So Big Show House” built in Lake Nona, Orlando, Florida, designed by architect Sarah Susanka. The showhouse was in conjunction with the 2005 International Builders' Show, held at the Orange County Convention Center in January 13-16, 2005.

Hahn’s Woodworking provided the custom designed main entry door with its stunning glass disk panel, and garage doors for the “Not So Big Showhouse,” a fully liveable home that was available for tours throughout 2005.

The “Not So Big” house concept, developed by author and architect Sarah Susanka, is not about building bigger, but about building better with higher quality features. That includes products by Hahn’s Woodworking . . . simply the best since 1984.

Hahn's also provided the prehung demonstration door which was installed twice a day in the SIPS (Structural Integrated Panels) demonstration home on display at the IBS show.

The "Not So Big Show House" (above) features a front entry door by Hahn's Woodworking, as well as two overhead operating garage doors (one pictured below), which uses the house's repeated design element.

		THIS OLD HOUSE® March 2003 Front and Center - A custom entry door can transform the look of your house
		THIS OLD HOUSE® June 2000 LUXURIES
		THIS OLD HOUSE® January/February 1998 Yankee Ingenuity - Modern ideas for fixing up an old house THIS OLD HOUSE® is a trademark of THIS OLD HOUSE VENTURES, INC. Used with permission.
		BUILDER/ARCHITECT Rhode Island edition March 1999 This issue focuses on architect father and son, Herbert and Michael Arnold, designers of specialty homes which "incorporate today's most modern conveniences without losing that nostaglic feel so many of us love." Carriage house barn doors by Hahn's Woodworking Company, Inc. are featured in several Arnold homes.
		AMERICAN HOMESTYLE & GARDENING September 1998 BEST FACE FORWARD "This tongue-and-groove design may have the arched grandeur of swinging gates, but it conceals a more practical upward-rising mechanism. The faux double doors are faced in western red cedar and operate remotely with a standard electric garage door opener."
		BARNS AND BACK BUILDINGS Edited by Donald J. Berg, AIA In this book of designs for barns, carriage houses, etc., Hahn's Woodworking Company, Inc. is recommended for its "custom wooden garage doors built to your specifications: stile and rail doors with flat or raised panels; historic barn and carriage-house style doors with convenient overhead motorized operation, traditional swing-out and sliding doors."
		COUNTRY LIVING MAGAZINE April 1996 BUILDER'S NOTES Garage Doors "A quick look at new models intended to help conserve energy and complement traditional architectural styles . . . Wooden garage doors in period designs, including the barn-style example shown here, are handcrafted by Hahn's Woodworking Co. The custom doors -- which can be overhead-operating, sliding, or swinging -- feature tongue-and-groove joinery, mullioned window panes, and hand-forged iron."
		OLD-HOUSE JOURNAL July-August 1995 RESTORATION PRODUCTS Garage Doors "Adding a garage to an old house, or trying to better blend an existing garage, is difficult unless the doors look historical. Hahn's Woodworking offers custom designs: barn doors, raised panels, sunbursts, and true divided-lite windows. The doors can be overhead-operating, sliding, or swinging. Prices vary."
		THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE March 5, 1995 HOME & GARDEN First Aid for the Old House "Restoration 95, at the Hynes Veterans Convention Center, was geared for the owner of an old house, maybe even a historic one, who is faced with the need to restore or preserve it . . . One company makes traditional-looking overhead garage doors, and also makes overhead doors with the appearanceof swing-out or sliding barn doors. In fact, it also makes custom swing-out and sliding barn doors. It's Hahn's Woodworking Company in NJ."
		TRADITIONAL BUILDING May/June 1994 WOODS DOORS & ENTRIES "While substitute materials may be satisfactory for some ornamental applications, when it comes to doors and entries, there's nothing like real wood. . . When it comes to the garage door, Scott Hahn of Hahn's Woodworking sees it as an extension of the house. 'It's a large architectural statement. If you spend time and money constructing your house, don't skimp on the final stage, which is often the garage. It brings in the architecture of the entire house and helps one element flow into another.' The great benefit of customized wood garage doors (and the justification for spending more than twice as much than on a stock wood or steel door) is that its style can be modified in may ways; for example, stiles, rails, and panels can be arranged to blend in with the style of the house and its doors."