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  2. Pole building framing - Wikipedia

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    Pole building design was pioneered in the 1930s in the United States originally using utility poles for horse barns and agricultural buildings. The depressed value of agricultural products in the 1920s, and 1930s and the emergence of large, corporate farming in the 1930s, created a demand for larger, cheaper agricultural buildings. [2]

  3. Purlin - Wikipedia

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    By supporting the rafters they allow longer spans than the rafters alone could span, thus allowing a wider building. Purlin plates are very commonly found in large old barns in North America. A crown plate has similarities to a purlin plate but supports collar beams in the middle of a timber-framed building.

  4. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Plank-framed barns [22] are different than a plank-framed house. Plank framed barns developed in the American Mid-West, such as the patente in 1876 (#185,690) by William Morris and Joseph Slanser of La Rue, Ohio, shows (several other patents followed). Sometimes they were also called a joist frame, rib frame and trussed frame barns.

  5. Screw piles - Wikipedia

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    Screw foundations first appeared in the 1800s as pile foundations for lighthouses, [4] and were extensively used for piers in harbours. Between the 1850s through 1890s, more than 100 screw-pile lighthouses were erected on the east coast of the United States using screw piles. Made originally from cast or wrought iron, they had limited bearing ...

  6. Gordon Hitt Farmstead - Wikipedia

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    On the other side are two large gambrel roof barns, the foundation of a third barn, and a one-story gable roof outbuilding. [3] The main house is a two-story, Upright and Wing balloon frame house with intersecting gable roofs covered with asphalt shingles. It sits on a fieldstone foundation, and is covered with clapboards and vertical corner ...

  7. Dutch barn - Wikipedia

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    New World Dutch barns) represent the oldest and rarest types of barns. [ citation needed ] There are relatively few—probably fewer than 600—of these barns still intact. Common features of these barns include a core structure composed of a steep gabled roof , supported by purlin plates and anchor beam posts, the floor and stone piers below.

  8. Portal frame - Wikipedia

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    foundation; bracing; If the joints are not rigid, they will "open up" and the frame will be unstable when subjected to loads. This is the pack of cards effect. Vertical loading results in the walls being pushed outwards. If the foundation cannot resist horizontal push, outward movement will occur and the frame will lose strength.

  9. Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn - Wikipedia

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    Archived at Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 340 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Intensive architectural survey of Indiana's round and polygonal barns. Conducted June to August 1991, conducted by Jerry McMahan, areawide survey of round and polygonal architectural and historical resources.

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