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  2. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.

  3. Framing (construction) - Wikipedia

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    Wall framing in house construction includes the vertical and horizontal members of exterior walls and interior partitions, both of bearing walls and non-bearing walls. . These stick members, referred to as studs, wall plates and lintels (sometimes called headers), serve as a nailing base for all covering material and support the upper floor platforms, which provide the lateral strength along a

  4. Knox Mansion (Buffalo, New York) - Wikipedia

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    The office is accessible from the front vestibule and through a door leading to the carriage room. The floor is concrete with yellow brick walls. The carriage room has a concrete floor with the basement below. The interior walls are a yellow brick with all bullnose outside corners. Openings between spaces use truncated arches.

  5. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    Also, as timber framing was seen as a cheaper way of building, often the visible structures of noble houses were in stone and bricks, and the invisible or lateral walls in timber framing. The open-air museums of Bokrijk and Saint-Hubert ( Fourneau Saint-Michel ) show many examples of Belgian timber framing.

  6. Dry Dock Complex (Detroit, Michigan) - Wikipedia

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    Like the machine shop and foundry, the loft building had a steel-framed structure with brick curtain walls. [38] The framing supported the loads on the floors as well as the weight of the roof. The steel framing, however, was wholly contained within the building rather than being encased in the brick. [38] Foundry and Industrial Loft Building ...

  7. Interior architecture - Wikipedia

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    Interior architecture is the design of a building or shelter from inside out, or the design of a new interior for a type of home that can be fixed. It can refer to the initial design and plan used for a building's interior, to that interior's later redesign made to accommodate a changed purpose, or to the significant revision of an original ...

  8. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    A-frame gable-style house, Portugal. A gablefront house or gablefront cottage has a gable roof that faces its street or avenue, as in the novel The House of Seven Gables. A-frame: so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A.

  9. Setback (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    For the same reason, setbacks may also be used in lower density districts to limit the height of perimeter walls above which a building must have a pitched roof or be set back before rising to the permitted height. [5] In many cities, building setbacks add value to the interior real estate adjacent to the setback by creating usable exterior spaces.