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Pole Barn Builders in Albert Lea, MN
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Good buildings for open country
Down here where I-35 crosses I-90, the land is flat and the sky is big, and the weather has nothing to stop it. A building out on a farm site around Albert Lea, Alden or Glenville takes wind from every direction in winter, and the snow drifts against whatever stands tall. A pole barn that is braced, anchored and sized right for that is a different animal from a catalog shed.
Albert Lea Pole Barns takes your request and sends it to an independent local builder who does all of the work. That includes the dirt, the drawings, the permit, the posts and trusses, the steel, the doors, the insulation and the floor. You will not be handed from one outfit to another halfway through the job.
Most people who call have something specific in mind. A shed for the planter and the grain cart. A shop where a grown son can work on trucks. A barn for a few horses on the acreage. A garage big enough for the boat that spends summers on Albert Lea Lake. Tell us that, tell us the size, and the quote starts from there.
What we build
What goes up on southern Minnesota land
From a machine shed to a house with a shop, here is the range.
Barndominiums
A home and a shop under one steel roof, finished to move-in or left as a dried-in shell.
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Pole Barn Garages & Shops
Garages and shops with wide doors, a good floor, and heat if you want it.
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Machine Sheds
Clear span farm sheds with doors big enough for the combine and the planter.
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Horse Barns
Horse barns with stalls, a center aisle, a tack room and run-ins for the pasture.
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Post Frame Buildings
Post frame buildings for farms, shops, storage and small commercial use, engineered for southern Minnesota weather.
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Pole Sheds & Storage Buildings
Pole sheds for boats, campers, RVs, snowmobiles, fish houses and hay, open or closed in.
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Building ideas
Pole barns, shops and farm buildings
Example photos of the building type.
How it works
From first call to a finished building
- 1
Tell us about the land
Give us the size you have in mind, what it will hold and which town or road it sits near.
- 2
A builder phones you
Expect questions about the doors, the floor, the power and the ground, since wet spots and tile lines matter.
- 3
Drawings and the permit
Engineered plans are drawn for the farm or lot, and filed with the township, city or county.
- 4
Raise it and walk it
Posts, trusses and steel go up, the floor goes in, and you walk the finished building together.
Service area
Our corner of Minnesota
Albert Lea is the center, and the work reaches west past Wells to Blue Earth and north toward New Richland and Ellendale.
Freeborn County
Steele County
Waseca County
Questions
Pole barn questions
How deep do posts go in southern Minnesota?
Below the 42 inch frost line, and often deeper on a building with tall walls or heavy doors. Wet, heavy soil may call for concrete pads under the posts. The roof trusses are built for the snow that falls on your ground, including drifts off a taller wall.
Do I need a permit to build on my farm?
A building on a working farm can be exempt from the State Building Code, but your township or county may still want a land-use permit and will check how far you sit from the road, ditch and neighbors. Homes, shops and anything near a lake need the full permit process.
How is a pole barn priced?
By what it takes to make it: square feet, wall height, the number and size of doors, whether the floor is gravel or concrete, how much insulation goes in, and the dirt work. A level field takes less prep than a spot with tile lines to move. The quote is free.
What towns near Albert Lea do you build in?
Albert Lea, Alden, Glenville, Clarks Grove, Hartland, Geneva, Wells, Kiester, Bricelyn, Blue Earth, Elmore, New Richland and Ellendale, plus the smaller places between them. If you are in Freeborn, Faribault or the south end of Waseca and Steele counties, ask.
Can you put a shop and a house under one roof?
Yes. A barndominium is often just that: a living space on one end and a heated shop on the other. It is a home, so it goes through the full residential permit, with septic and well where the farm has no city service.
Will the wind be a problem for a big building?
Not if it is designed for it. Open farm ground in this part of the state gets hard wind, so builders add bracing, close-spaced girts and doors on heavy-duty tracks. It is part of the plan from the first drawing.
How long before I can start?
That depends on permit timing and the builder's calendar, and frozen ground slows dirt work in winter. The first call tells you where a build for your site sits on the schedule.
Let's talk about your building
Call or send the form, and a builder will be in touch about your place.