Western Heritage Furniture

Since the beginning, it was all about efficiency and making your girlfriend happy. When Tim McClellan, founder of Western Heritage Furniture, made a bet with his girlfriend that he could make the $1200 lodgepole bed she saw in a catalog for much less, he decided to reclaim timber from old slash and burn piles near where he lived. The deal was that if the lodgepole bed did not look like the one in the catalog, he would have to purchase the real bed at full price. She loved it. Her friends loved it. Tim reclaimed more timber and sold more beds. Soon there were commissions to furnish entire homes, all with reclaimed lumber from slash and burn piles. In 1993 McClellan visited his sister Terri in Jerome - an old ghost town once known as the Wickedest City in the West - and never left. In 1994 Tim McClellan took over the old 14,000 square foot Mingus Union High School gymnasium in Jerome and opened Western Heritage Furniture. The Mingus Marauders giant pirate mascot still looks ove...