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American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of structural carpentry are often defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, timber framed, balloon framed ...
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Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials ...
Portrait of Roubo from Portraits and History of Useful Men (1836). André Jacob Roubo (1739–1791) was a French carpenter, cabinetmaker and author.Roubo was born and died in Paris, and was the son and grandson of master cabinetmakers.
Joe Carpenter, protagonist of the novel Sole Survivor; Dr. John Carpenter, the main character played by Elvis Presley in the 1969 musical drama film Change of Habit. Joseph Carpenter, codenamed "Joker", supporting character from the Read or Die series of novels, manga, and anime; Julia Carpenter, the second Spider-Woman and Madame Web in Marvel ...
Peter J. McGuire (July 6, 1852 – February 18, 1906) was an American labor leader of the nineteenth century. He co-founded the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in 1881 along with Gustav Luebkert [1] and became one of the leading figures in the first three decades of the American Federation of Labor.
Zacharie Cloutier (c. 1590 – September 17, 1677) was a French carpenter who immigrated to New France in 1634 in the first wave of the Percheron immigration from the former province of Perche, to an area that is today part of Quebec, Canada. He settled in Beauport and founded one of the foremost families of Quebec. [1]
The Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia is the oldest extant craft guild in the United States. Founded in 1724, the Company consists of nearly 200 prominent Philadelphia area architects, building contractors and structural engineers and has had nearly 900 members in its almost three centuries of existence.