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2. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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   In 1912, Allen W. Jackson published The Half-Timber House: Its Origin, Design, Modern Plan, and Construction, and rambling half-timbered beach houses appeared on dune-front properties in Rhode Island or under palm-lined drives of Beverly Hills. During the 1920s increasingly minimal gestures towards some half-timbering in commercial speculative ...

3. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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   Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.

4. Jettying - Wikipedia

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   The traditional Turkish house is a half-timbered house with a cantilevered or supported overhang called a cumba. In the North African Maghreb, houses in medieval city kasbahs often featured jetties. Contemporary examples still survive in the Casbah of Algiers. The House of Opus Craticum, built before AD 79 in Roman Herculaneum, has a supported ...

5. Tudor Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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   This simple cottage, Ascott House in Buckinghamshire designed c. 1876 by George Devey, is an early example of Tudorbethan influence Half-timbering, Gothic Revival tracery and Jacobean carved porch brackets combine in the Tudor Revival Beaney Institute, Canterbury, built in 1899

6. The Hess Homestead - Wikipedia

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   Blockstanderbau houses are, in effect, half-timbered houses. The horizontal timbers are for infill, rather than for load-bearing support. These horizontals serve the same function as brick infill or wattle-and-daub filler in other half-timber framing. The Hess log farmhouse originally had 33 vertical posts, of which most survive. The horizontal ...

7. Little Moreton Hall - Wikipedia

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   Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, [a] is a moated half-timbered manor house 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south-west of Congleton in Cheshire, England. [2] The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–08 and the remainder was constructed in stages by successive generations of the family until about 1610.