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  2. Barnwood Builders - Wikipedia

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    Barnwood Builders follows Mark Bowe, whose West Virginia company [10] purchases old barns and log cabins in order to reuse the hand-hewn logs in modern housebuilding. [11] His team specializes in the reclamation and restoration of pioneer era structures in the eastern United States.

  3. Pennsylvania barn - Wikipedia

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    "The Standard Pennsylvania barn is the most numerous and widely distributed class of the Pennsylvania barns." [2]: 67 These were built between 1790 and 1890.The key characteristic in identifying this type is the forebay, built so that the gable end is symmetrical, with both front and rear walls being the same height.

  4. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    A type of trussed plank frame barn in Sweden is representative of some types in America, the lack of heavy timbers in the framing give it the name plank frame barn. 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 ...

  5. Shiplap - Wikipedia

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    Shiplap is either rough-sawn 25 mm (1 in) or milled 19 mm (3 ⁄ 4 in) pine or similarly inexpensive wood between 76 and 254 mm (3 and 10 in) wide with a 9.5–12.7 mm (3 ⁄ 8 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) rabbet on opposite sides of each edge. [1]

  6. 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]

  7. Laura J. Alber - Wikipedia

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    She joined Williams-Sonoma in 1995 as a senior buyer in the Pottery Barn subsidiary brand. [6] Alber was promoted several times. She has said that her most important job, prior to becoming CEO of Williams-Sonoma, was serving as director of the Pottery Barn catalog, giving her the opportunity to “own” a business line from start to finish. [7]

  8. Barn - Wikipedia

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    A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. In North America, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain. [2] As a result, the term barn is often qualified e.g. tobacco barn, dairy barn, cow house, sheep barn, potato barn.

  9. Cruck - Wikipedia

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    Cruck framing, Leigh Court Barn, Worcester, England The Moirlanich Longhouse, a byre dwelling with a cruck frame 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.