Timber-frame building experts say only a handful of family farms have chosen the quality and durability of the old-fashioned barns over economic pole barns. Most of their work is restoration of ...

As a child growing up in Big Sky country, Scott Butcher found a comforting appeal in rustic homes and barns. “I worked in my grandfather’s timber frame barn back in Montana, and loved the feel, the ...

Whit Holder has ventured inside the huge barns of Ohio and Pennsylvania to examine the joints that bind the massive timbers and to look at the aged tool marks of construction to see "how the old ...

MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS — What do you do when you’ve got an old barn on your property threatening to collapse? Some call Luke Larson. Larson purchased Green Mountain Timber Frames over the winter. The ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. AVON — A timber frame workshop will be held on Saturday, May 17, at Maine ...

CANE HILL -- Smells of brewed coffee and wood dust filled the air on the Sunday afternoon, June 1, of a long-anticipated, once-delayed timber framing workshop held May 29 to June 4 at Colburn Barn ...

Scars left by axes swung before the Civil War show the work of skilled builders who shaped timbers for use in homes, barns and warehouses long before cutting machinery came along. Each board or beam ...

BRATTLEBORO — After several days of oppressive heat, it's a wonderfully cool and windy day at Rebop Farm, high on a hill on Sunset Lake Road in Brattleboro on Friday morning. Sitting in the shade of ...

Timber frames, for so long limited to the low-rise residential sector, have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses, thanks to technological breakthroughs. What does the future hold? For ...