Cashmere man rights Kramlich barn in Colfax

Contractor Jon Skoglun skip-sheaths the Gothic roof last Saturday, removing the 1919 barn's original shingles.

The Kramlich barn work is being paid for by a $27,200 matching grant from the Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation.

Skoglun's nylon ratcheting straps have straightened the barn more than two feet to the west since he began.

Pieces of cedar fluttered through the air, landing in green field grass – back to the ground after 97 years on top of the Kramlich Barn, on the east edge of Colfax.

High atop the sloped Gothic-arch roof, Jon Skoglun of Cashmere swung a...