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2. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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   Some types of historic houses are called plank houses but plank house has several meanings which are discussed below. Roofs were almost always framed with wood, sometimes with timber roof trusses. Stone and brick buildings also have some wood framing for floors, interior walls and roofs.

3. Izba - Wikipedia

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   An izba at the Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life in Suzdal, Russia 17th century chimney-less kurnaya izba Carefully rebuilt traditional Russian house in Vyatskoe selo, Jaroslavl region. An izba (Russian: изба́, IPA: ⓘ) is a traditional Russian countryside dwelling.

4. Fairbanks House (Dedham, Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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   The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, [1] [2] making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (née Smith) and their family. It was occupied and ...

5. Russian wooden architecture - Wikipedia

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   Interior view of the wooden church of Peter and Paul in Puchuga, 1894. The interior of the hut was spatially organized by corners. The most important were the stove corner, where a huge multifunctional Russian stove stood, and the red (front) corner with a sacristy and a table. The red corner was the most lighted place.

6. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Gingerbread trim on a Victorian-era house in Cape May, New Jersey Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim . [ 1 ] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly ...

7. Framing (construction) - Wikipedia

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   Wall framing in house construction includes the vertical and horizontal members of exterior walls and interior partitions, both of bearing walls and non-bearing walls. . These stick members, referred to as studs, wall plates and lintels (sometimes called headers), serve as a nailing base for all covering material and support the upper floor platforms, which provide the lateral strength along a