Greenfield, MASS-- A more than 180-year-old church is heading back to where it came from.

“It was offered to us and we just, we don’t say no,” Phil Stevens, owner of Carter & Stevens Farm said. 

Beam by beam, crews with Carter & Stevens Farm are carefully dismantling the Zion Korean Church building in Greenfield and returning it to its hometown of Barre.

“It’s a lot of manpower,” Stevens said. “Pull all the pegs. Pull all the nails. Band it all up and put it on a truck. These beams are 60 feet long.”

Spectrum News 1 cameras were rolling as a crane lifted the church’s steeple off the structure, into the air and safely back on ground.

“Just get it secured. Getting it saved was the main concern,” he said. “This was put on us really quick and we had to get it done."

The historic building was built in the 1840s in Barre. It arrived in Greenfield in 1930 and was now facing demolition. To try and the save the church, the Greenfield Historic Commission and Barre Historical Society approached Stevens who stepped in to get the job done.

“We just could not bear to have these beams destroyed and this building destroyed,” Stevens said. 

The building is being rehomed, rebuilt, and restored on the farm’s property at Stone Cow Brewery. Stevens said there are decades of history to preserve within these wooden walls.

“They were cut down in the early 1800s. It’s a sin to just crush that up,” he said. 

It’s not the first time Stevens has led a special project like this and he has a portfolio of structures on his property to prove it.

“Everything at the brewery is buildings that were given to us that we disassembled and moved on site and made something really cool out of,” Stevens said. 

As for what will come of this building when its fully restored and back home in barre, Stevens said it’s a secret.