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  2. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    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 houses, the vertical boards are structural. [18] The origins of boxed construction is unknown.

  3. List of partitions of traditional Japanese architecture

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    Plank-and-batten wooden doors Battens (mairako) may be set crosswise to planks, may cover joins, or may act as a frame into which the planks are set, appearing on both sides. [19] [20] Popular 1100s-1600s To-fusuma (戸襖), including sugi-do (杉戸) more images: Solid wooden sliding doors Sugi-do made of sugi, and flat.

  4. Board and Batten Cottage - Wikipedia

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    The Board and Batten Cottage is a board and batten house located on Prospect Street in Tonopah, Nevada. The house was built in 1909. Its design features a T-shaped plan with symmetrical features, a hipped roof, and molded and boxed cornices along the roof line. The house originally had two porches, including one along the entire front of the ...

  5. Batten - Wikipedia

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    Board-and-batten roofing is a type of board roof with battens covering the gaps between boards on a roof as the roofing material. Board-and-batten is also a synonym for single-wall construction , a method of building with vertical, structural boards, the seams sometimes covered with battens.

  6. Molding (decorative) - Wikipedia

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    A "speed base" makes use of a base "cap moulding" set on top of a plain 1" thick board, however there are hundreds of baseboard profiles. Baton: See Torus; Batten or board and batten: Symmetrical moulding that is placed across a joint where two parallel panels or boards meet; Bead moulding: Narrow, half-round convex moulding, when repeated ...

  7. Edward H. Swan House - Wikipedia

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    Edward H. Swan House is a historic home located in the village of Cove Neck, New York on Long Island. It was built in 1859 in the Second Empire style. The rectangular house is built of double brick walls spaced nine inches apart. It is a substantial 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story residence topped by a mansard roof of hexagonal shaped slate.

  8. The 25 most overrated albums ranked, from Nirvana’s In Utero ...

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    The British media frenzy around Self Esteem – aka Slow Club’s Rebecca Lucy Taylor – and her second album felt a touch ridiculous when you actually tuned into Prioritise Pleasure.

  9. Batter board - Wikipedia

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    Batter boards (or battre boards, Sometimes mispronounced as "battle boads") are temporary frames, set beyond the corners of a planned foundation at precise elevations. These batter boards [1] are then used to hold layout lines (construction twine) to indicate the limits [2] (edges and corners) of the foundation.