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  2. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - Wikipedia

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    In 1967, CMHC exported wood-frame construction abroad to construct 137 homes in Harlow, England, marking CMHC's first international project. [ 14 ] Also that year, CMHC funded the design and development costs of Habitat —designed by architect Moshe Safdie for Expo 67 in Montréal—which demonstrated higher-density housing and led to many ...

  3. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Over 5,000 relief cottages after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were built using single-wall construction. Box houses (boxed house, box frame, [16] box and strip, [17] piano box, single-wall, board and batten, and many other names) have minimal framing in the corners and widely spaced in the exterior walls, but like the vertical plank wall ...

  4. 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

  5. A-frame building - Wikipedia

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    A historic photograph of an A-frame sod roof house in the Netherlands. Image: Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands 20309407 - RCE. An A-frame building is an architectural style [1] of building that features steeply-angled sides (roofline) that usually begin at or near the foundation line, and meet at the top in the shape of the letter A ...

  6. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    In 1912, Allen W. Jackson published The Half-Timber House: Its Origin, Design, Modern Plan, and Construction, and rambling half-timbered beach houses appeared on dune-front properties in Rhode Island or under palm-lined drives of Beverly Hills. During the 1920s increasingly minimal gestures towards some half-timbering in commercial speculative ...

  7. Cruck - Wikipedia

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    A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which support the roof of a building, historically used in England and Wales. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof.

  8. 80 Secondhand Finds That Are As Strange As They Are Wonderful

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    The Bed Frame Is Eastlake In Style And Is Solid As A Rock, Very Comfortable Too Image credits: Weird and Wonderful Secondhand Finds #40 Found These At A Friend's Grandmas Estate Sale.

  9. Pole building framing - Wikipedia

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    Poles, from which these buildings get their name, are natural shaped or round wooden timbers 4 to 12 inches (100 to 300 mm) in diameter. [4] The structural frame of a pole building is made of tree trunks, utility poles, engineered lumber or chemically pressure-treated squared timbers which may be buried in the ground or anchored to a concrete slab.