A barn raising celebration is held for the new single-story, 30-foot-by-50-foot barn that is being constructed at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, which combines traditional post-and-beam ...

NEWTOWN — The mother of a slain Sandy Hook first grader drove the first birch peg into the timber frame with a large wooden mallet, sending rings through a stand of cathedral pines to the delight of a ...

The spirit and practice of barn raising will return to Geneseo, Ill., Aug. 12–22 when Trillium Dell Timberworks, in conjunction with the Timber Framers Guild, will host a community event to raise a ...

TAKES A VILLAGE: Barron Brown directs a crew at a barn raising near Marshall. Photo by Storms Reback It’s not every day you get invited to a barn raising, so when I did, I jumped at the opportunity.

When JoAnn Lapoint became a grandmother, she decided to make good on her long-held desire for a guest house on her seven-acre riverside property in Kennebunk — for visiting family and to potentially ...

“I don’t know the last time when a timber-framed barn was built in Midland County. This type of construction is very old and has been used in Midland since the 1850s,” explained Kyle Bagnall, manager ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the low morning light, at 7:30 on Dec. 5, the first shift of volunteers arrived for the community barn-raising at Gaining Ground, a non-profit organic farm in Concord that donates all of its ...

The School of Architecture hosted “the first-ever barn-raising on Princeton University's campus,’ according to a flier sent to residential college listservs on Monday, Nov. 27. The event started, held ...