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2. 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.

3. 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 ...

4. Dutch barn - Wikipedia

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   The design alludes to cathedral interiors with columned aisles along a central interior space, used in Dutch barns for threshing. It is this design that links Dutch barns to the Old World barns of Europe. [5] Another distinctive feature of the Dutch barn is that the ends of the cross beams protrude through the columns.

5. Functionally classified barn - Wikipedia

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   Wooden cattle barn (early 20th century) in Nunspeet, Netherlands. A functionally classified barn is a barn whose style is best classified by its function. Barns that do not fall into one of the broader categories of barn styles, such as English barns or crib barns, can best be classified by some combination of two factors, region and usage.

6. Pennsylvania barn - Wikipedia

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   The name reflects the barn's probable origin in Switzerland. The Sweitzer is the "original Pennsylvania barn"; it was initially a log crib-type barn built between 1730 and 1850. [2]: 56 The distinguishing feature of this type of forebay barn is that the forebay projects in a way that the gable end is asymmetrical.

7. Gothic-arch barn - Wikipedia

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   Barns of all kinds were available by mail order from around 1905 to the 1940s. The Gothic-arch design was featured on both the front and back cover of The Book of Barns - Honor-Bilt-Already Cut [a] catalog published by Sears Roebuck in 1918. It was the most popular roof design for barns sold by Sears. [7]