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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. Dogtrot house - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] The Autrey House Museum, a dogtrot house built in 1849, is located in Dubach; the home is believed to be the oldest extant structure in Lincoln Parish. [15] At Louisiana State University in Shreveport, the Pioneer Heritage Center [16] hosts the Thrasher House, [17] a two-room dogtrot house built in 1850 by Thomas Zilks near Castor ...

  4. Kit house - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...

  5. Central-passage house - Wikipedia

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    Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...

  6. Antebellum architecture - Wikipedia

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    The design is intended to reflect the wealth and status of the owners, which was largely tied to plantation economy. The Hermitage (Nashville, Tennessee) Home to President Andrew Jackson, The Hermitage is a Neoclassical style plantation house with distinctive elements like columns and a large portico. The architecture reflects Jackson's ...

  7. Buying an Old House? Plan for These Home Repairs

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    During my 20 years as a professional home inspector I've walked the floorboards of thousands of old houses. By now, I've developed an uncanny ability to predict the home repairs they'll need ...

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