About Early New England Homes

From humble beginnings in Bolton, Connecticut and with a passionate desire to preserve the cultural and structural integrity that our New England ancestors adhered to, Roger Barrett Sr. established Country Carpenters in 1974 along with his wife Lois, his son Roger, Jr. and a team of dedicated, skilled craftsmen.

Over fifty years and three generations later, our mission and philosophy at Early New England Homes by Country Carpenters remains the same – helping loyal customers across the country fulfill their dreams of owning beautiful period style homes. Our unique timbered ceiling system and hybrid building system provide your local professional builder with the materials and detailed instructions necessary to build the period style home you always dreamed about.

So often a period home is not complete without a carriage house or barn also on the property. Early New England Homes’ sister company, Post and Beam Barns by Country Carpenters, offers a variety of barns and outbuildings to complement any home.

The vision Roger Sr. had in mind when he founded Country Carpenters still remains today in both of these affiliated companies – “Helping people build beautiful country places since 1974.”

In order to trace the history of our companies one must first return to a time before their existence; to a time not long after the Great Depression, to the small New England town of Mansfield, CT, along the banks of the Willimantic River. With dreams of one day building his own homestead, an industrious boy is there tending his traps. With wages earned working as a janitor, at the age of sixteen, he bought eighteen acres in Coventry, CT., there he built his first home. That young man was Roger Barrett. Although his school career was short, Roger had an insatiable hunger for learning and exemplified the term “self-taught.” Eventually his focus toward architecture, building, business management, and economics would equip him to build a business, with the help of his wife, son, and daughter, that now ships their products nationwide, and abroad, and employs a third generation of his own family.

A CALLING not to forget our rich COLONIAL HERITAGE.
Wanting the FLAVOR OF LIFE once found in the SIMPLICITY OF THE PAST.
Providing a building that is in HARMONY with the COUNTRYSIDE we live in.
A CONCERN TO RESTORE FAMILY VALUES at HOME AND IN THE COMMUNITY
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE while not losing sight of the vanishing landscapes our forefathers fashioned.
PLEDGING to support RENEWABLE RESOURCES.
Letting the reward of our work provide our needs while BRINGING JOY AND PEACE as it was intended.