The House that Ron Loge Built: The Stabbur

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The centerpiece of every farm in Norway was always the storehouse, or stabbur. The food stored during summer and fall in this humble log and stave building was what got people through the long, cold winters every year.  They were built so well, many are still standing 300 years later. Join us as we l hear the story from a man who built his own version in the mountains of Montana, and learned to carve the portals just like the stave churches of old.  We also hear a song played by the Nordahl Grieg Spelemannslag.

Links

Jeri Holan’s Norwegian Wood (1990) Rizzoli Publishing, available used. The book that started it all with Ron Loge; includes diagrams and drawings of stabburs, farm buildings, and stave churches. Title not to be confused with the Beatles or Lars Mytting’s book about cordwood.

Here’s a nice explanation of the nature and importance of stabburs at Talk Norway.

“For the love of Norway“, my article about Ron and Charlene Loge and their stabbur in the Norwegian American News.

Photos

A stabbur and cabin in the mountains with 5 people sitting on the grass in front in clothes from the early 1900s or late 1800s. Photographer unknown but location believed to be from Hakkestad.