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Wright-Dalton-Bell-Anchor Department Store Building, also known as the Dalton Store and F.W. Woolworth Store, is a historic commercial building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1927–1928, and is a two-to three-story, rectangular brick building with terracotta embellishments.
A lumber yard sorting table in Falls City, Oregon Frank A. Jagger loads his boat full of lumber at the Albany Lumber District in Albany, New York in the 1870s. A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored.
"Building the redwood region: The redwood lumber industry and the landscape of Northern California, 1850–1929" (PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2000. 3001767). Cox, Thomas R. Mills and markets: A history of the Pacific Coast lumber industry to 1900 (U of Washington Press, 2016).
In 1999 Parr Lumber purchased six lumber yards from Copeland Lumber to bring the total number of stores to 19. [5] The company started a special "Ladies Night" program in 2003 that focuses on helping female customers with home improvement training. [4] Some of Parr's locations are represented by the Teamsters Union. In 2004, the company and the ...
Poplar. Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera) Black poplar (Populus nigra) Hybrid black poplar (Populus × canadensis) Purpleheart (Peltogyne spp.) Queensland maple (Flindersia brayleyana) Queensland walnut (Endiandra palmerstonii) Ramin (Gonystylus spp.) Redheart, chakté-coc (Erythroxylon mexicanum) Sal (Shorea robusta) Sweetgum (Liquidambar ...
Large self-supporting wooden roof built for Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. Engineered wood, also called mass timber, composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation [1] to form ...
In the United States, it is commonly known as tulip poplar or yellow poplar, even though the tree is not related to the poplars. It is notable for its height, which can exceed 190 feet. The wood is very light, around 490 kg per cubic meter, [1] but very strong and is used in many applications, including furniture, joinery and moldings. It can ...
Also in North America, hardwood lumber is commonly sold in a "quarter" system, when referring to thickness; 4/4 (four quarter) refers to a 1-inch-thick (25 mm) board, 8/4 (eight quarter) is a 2-inch-thick (51 mm) board, etc.