As a child growing up in Big Sky country, Scott Butcher found a comforting appeal in rustic homes and barns. “I worked in my grandfather’s timber frame barn back in Montana, and loved the feel, the ...

MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS — What do you do when you’ve got an old barn on your property threatening to collapse? Some call Luke Larson. Larson purchased Green Mountain Timber Frames over the winter. The ...

TYNGSBORO — Even as the owners of Lawndale Farm are building something new, they are preserving the past. If you’ve driven down Frost Road recently past the farm, you may have noticed piles of chopped ...

BRATTLEBORO — After several days of oppressive heat, it's a wonderfully cool and windy day at Rebop Farm, high on a hill on Sunset Lake Road in Brattleboro on Friday morning. Sitting in the shade of ...

Whit Holder has ventured inside the huge barns of Ohio and Pennsylvania to examine the joints that bind the massive timbers and to look at the aged tool marks of construction to see "how the old ...

CANE HILL -- Smells of brewed coffee and wood dust filled the air on the Sunday afternoon, June 1, of a long-anticipated, once-delayed timber framing workshop held May 29 to June 4 at Colburn Barn ...

Scars left by axes swung before the Civil War show the work of skilled builders who shaped timbers for use in homes, barns and warehouses long before cutting machinery came along. Each board or beam ...

John and Ann Sweet and their dogs wander the Sweet Timber Frame workshop in Mount Desert where massive beams are prepared for joinery PHOTO/DAVID A. RODGERS John Sweet calls it a barn. That hardly ...

It was on a trip to northern Minnesota that he came across a company called Big Wood Timber Frames. Its headquarters is in St. Paul; its workshop is in Brainerd. “I stopped in because I was thinking ...

Tucked away down a winding road at the unincorporated crossroads of Eureka and Pacific, there is a blue barn-style home dwarfed by towering oaks. Its distinctive façade invites passers-by to stop and ...