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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Berkshire Botanical Garden holds 'barn raising' to dedicate new timber-frame structure. Local experts Scott Brockway and Adam Miller shed light on the art of the longstanding building method By Tony ...

Press release from Wild Abundance: Timber framing has been used for centuries to build beautiful, stout structures that stand the test of time and don’t require any screws or nails to hold them ...

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 ...