Church Of One Tree

skyhook

Believe it or not this Church in Santa Rosa, Ca. was built in 1873 from just one Redwood tree. 300' lenght and 19' diameter.There was enough wood left over to also build a house. Today it houses the Robert L. Ripley Museum, Ripley was a native of Santa Rosa.

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Nathan

Very Cool... thanks for sharing.

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dayspring

was built in 1873 from just one Redwood tree

With that being said. I wonder how many trees it takes to build the average house today.

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reveivl

I unfortunately never got a picture of it, but I worked off and on for years at a farm up the coast here where the original farmhouse built in the late 1880's was built from a single tree. It was certainly not as large, or a church, and redwoods don't grow up here, it was a red cedar, but what fascinated me about it was not only all the wood in the house was out of this one tree, from beams to mullions and shakes, but all the wood was also split. There was not a single sawn board in the entire house.

They had also used the stump as a piece of the foundation.

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skyhook

The stump idea is great. They had to have a plan that worked for the house and the tree.

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dougchips

Must suck to run out and get stuck cutting down another tree......then finding something to do with the rest of the other tree...like building another house.

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essrmo

conservation at its finest.

DetailHandyman

Three of them...if they're well trained.

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billy d

That thing about the split wood(cleaved timber),was known by the the old Shipwrights.They knew that cleaved timber does not shrink any where near as much as sawn timber.So where possible cleaved timbers where used to plank the forward and after sections of a wooden ship.Interesting that they used it in a house.

simplejack

Thanks, for the Info Skyhook! I'll put it on the things to see next time I'm passing through! amazing what they did with just one Redwood!

Lester S.

That is truly awesome. Talk about green.

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TimNJ

At three hundred feet and 19' diameter, one redwood equals a couple acres of fast growing pine today.