He rented a temporary storage facility two counties over to house what remained of his salvaged inventory, driving back and forth several times a week to keep projects moving for clients who had waited patiently through the disruption. Some contracts had to be renegotiated and a handful of clients understandably walked away, unwilling to wait out an uncertain timeline for materials that no longer existed. Grant absorbed those losses quietly, adding them to the growing list of damages Nora would eventually present in court, but he never let the setback stop him from continuing the restoration work that had defined his career for over two decades. Silas Boone spent months tracking down salvageable chestnut timber from barns and mills scheduled for demolition in neighboring states negotiating directly with owners who had no idea their old outbuildings held pieces of history that Grant's project desperately needed. He cataloged every beam, documented its provenance, and cross-referenced growth rings and joinery techniques to ensure whatever arrived on site would match the barn's original construction as closely as possible.
It was meticulous, unglamorous work, the kind that rarely made headlines but mattered enormously to anyone who understood what true restoration actually required. Silas often reminded Grant that rebuilding a structure like this was not simply about replacing lost material, but about honoring the specific hands and specific decisions that had shaped the original barn more than a century earlier. 14 months later a new barn began rising slowly from the same foundation where the old one had stood its shape, climbing back into the sky piece by piece. Silas managed to source reclaimed chestnut timber recovered from two structures built during the same era, ensuring the restoration honored the original craftsmanship rather than approximating it. Grant personally restored the scorched hinge pulled from the wreckage months earlier and mounted it back onto the barn's main door with his own hands.
Inside a small plaque was installed near the entrance stating simply that the structure had been rebuilt by court order following its unlawful destruction. The framing crew Silas assembled worked with hand tools rather than modern power equipment wherever the preservation agreement required it, cutting mortise and tenon joints the same way the original builders had done more than 100 years earlier. Grant spent many of his evenings on site long after the paid crew had gone home sanding down salvaged boards and matching grain patterns by lamplight determined to have some part of his own hands in every section of the rebuild. Neighbors from Brier Glen occasionally stopped by to watch the progress and a few even volunteered to help clear debris or haul lumber.