A significant piece of Oakland County history will be preserved thanks to the combined efforts of the Oakland County Parks, Springfield Township and a residential developer, RBI 33 LLC.
The ‘Ellis Barn? will be dismantled and transported to Springfield Oaks Activity Center in Davisburg, where it will be reassembled.
Oakland County Parks also partnered with the Road Commission for Oakland County to secure $600,000 in grant funding through the Michigan Department of Transportation’s Transportation Enhancement Program. The TE program promotes, among other things, historic preservation.
Oakland County Parks recommended that the road commission award the contract for the barn relocation project to CLR Inc. of Indiana for a low bid of $522,155.
For more information on the Ellis Barn project, contact Tim Birtsas, RBI 33 LLC, at
248-620-2248 or Dan Stencil, Oakland County Parks administrator of operations, at 248-858-4944.