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 ...

Timber frames, for so long limited to the low-rise residential sector, have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses, thanks to technological breakthroughs. What does the future hold? For ...

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 ...

As agriculture has morphed into big business and populations have shifted from the countryside to urban centers, timber-frame barns have become rare. Thanks to companies like Heritage Restorations, ...

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 ...

The modern homesteaders behind Gold Shaw Farm teach the full process of constructing a traditional timber frame barn.

Crickside Timber Craft, a Loysville, Pennsylvania workshop specializing in hand-crafted timber structures, is marking National Historic Preservation Month this May by drawing public attention to the ...

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 ...