A barn raising celebration is held for the new single-story, 30-foot-by-50-foot barn that is being constructed at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, which combines traditional post-and-beam ...

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 ...

NEWTOWN — The mother of a slain Sandy Hook first grader drove the first birch peg into the timber frame with a large wooden mallet, sending rings through a stand of cathedral pines to the delight of a ...

John Ebersole’s workshop, deep in the countryside of Christiana, smells of wood warmed by late-morning winter sunlight. It’s not a large space. Three visitors, plus Ebersole, are enough to make it a ...

It was on a trip to northern Minnesota that he came across a company called Big Wood Timber Frames. Its headquarters is in St. Paul; its workshop is in Brainerd. “I stopped in because I was thinking ...

ABOVE: Timber framer Alicia Spence works on a half-lap scarf joint, used to join two timbers end-to-end, at the 217-year-old Shepherd Barn on the grounds of Historic Northampton. Credit: STAFF PHOTOS ...

ELIOT, Maine — A step back in time, a refuge from the area swell of gentrification, Paul and Helen Goransson's 260 acres of land off Depot Road will remain pure. They will make sure of it. The hay, ...

This summer the Timber Framers Guild, in conjunction with Trillium Dell Timberworks, is hosting a raising and panel installation event in Geneseo, IL from August 12 to August 22, 2009, on behalf of ...