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 ...

UNDERSTANDING HOW JOINERY WORKS IS THE KEY TO A DEEPER APPRECIATION OF TIMBER FRAME BARNS. AT THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM IN VERMONT A REPLICA OF AN 18th CENTURY BARN WAS BUILT IN THE SUMMER OF 2001.

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 ...

A 10-year-old home near Alexandria in Licking County created from two mid-1800 barns has hit the market, offering barn lovers ...

Troth disassembled the 16-by-32-foot two-story home, numbering each timber so the frame could be rebuilt. He stored itin his barn, where it awaited ause. A few months later, he took a call from a ...

Some call Luke Larson. Larson purchased Green Mountain Timber Frames over the winter. The business, started by Dan Mckeen in the 1970s, takes apart pre-1900 barns — and other structures — and restores ...

The wood in old timber frame barns has value. But there is a significant cost associated with dismantling such a barn properly and what appears to be reusable may not be on closer examination.

He figures his company, Sweet Timber Frames, on Mt. Desert Island, has done 70 to 100 homes in the years since. He’s built woodsheds, barns and boathouses in “all kinds of configurations..

Their large timber-frame barn built in 1913, is 40 feet by 90 feet in size, with a 40-foot by 50-foot straw shed attached at one side. The roof at its peak is 50 feet high.