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2. Campus of Clemson University - Wikipedia

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   The university was founded in 1889, and three buildings from the initial construction still exist today: Hardin Hall (built in 1890), Main Building (later renamed Tillman Hall) (1894), and Godfrey Hall (1898). Other periods of large expansion occurred in 1936–1938, when 8 new buildings constructed, and the late 1950s through 1970, when no ...

3. Post in ground - Wikipedia

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   A post in ground construction, also called earthfast [1] or hole-set posts, is a type of construction in which vertical, roof-bearing timbers, called posts, are in direct contact with the ground. They may be placed into excavated postholes , [ 2 ] driven into the ground, or on sills which are set on the ground without a foundation.

4. 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]

5. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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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 ...

6. Cardington Airfield - Wikipedia

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   The site started life as a private venture when aircraft manufacturing company Short Brothers bought land there to build airships for the Admiralty.It constructed a 700-foot-long (210 m) Airship hangar (the No. 1 Shed) in 1915 to enable it to build two rigid airships, the R-31 and the R-32.

7. Structure relocation - Wikipedia

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   Originally the two buildings comprised a single row, but they were rebuilt 90 degrees to each other and connected by new construction. The formerly Grade-I Listed Murray House in Hong Kong (built 1844) was dismantled in 1982 to make way for the Bank of China Tower. It was rebuilt brick-by-brick at Stanley in 2000. The relocation process ...