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It is of frame construction with weatherboard siding and a gable roof with asphalt shingle roof covering. It is entered through a panel and frame door with four panels. The property where the Robert Maxwell House is located was originally settled by William Newton Maxwell's father-in-law, (Mahala Scott's father) who built the home around 1830.
Tennessee state historian John Trotwood Moore once called Blount Mansion "the most important historical spot in Tennessee." [3] The house is a wood-frame home sheathed in wood siding, built with materials brought from North Carolina in an era when most homes in Tennessee were log cabins. The two-story central portion of the home is the oldest ...
As logs and timbers dry, the differential shrinkage (radial versus tangential) causes small cracks (known as "checks") to open slowly over time. Checking is a natural process in both air- and kiln-dried logs. This occurs in all log houses regardless of construction method or how the timber is allowed to dry, and is considered normal.
The oldest portion of this 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story timber-frame house was built c. 1710. [79] One of the oldest surviving homes in Stow, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [80] San Miguel Mission: Santa Fe: NM 1710 Government/religious Said to be the oldest church structure built in the United States.
Rock Castle (Hendersonville, Tennessee) Hendersonville: 1784-1791 Residence earliest known version of Federal Style architecture in Tennessee. Dixona: Dixon Springs: 1787-88 Residence Bowen–Campbell House: Goodlettsville: 1789 Residence Log Cabin at The Tanglewood House: Clarksville: 1790s Residence Purportedly the oldest log cabin in TN ...
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.
Log cabin – a rustic dwelling; Log house – a style and method of building a quality house; Izba – a type of Russian peasant house, often of log construction. The Cabin of Peter the Great is based on an izba. Crib barn – a type of barn built using log cribs; Some barns are log barns such as the earliest of the Pennsylvania barn types.
Wynnewood, also known as Castalian Springs, is a historic estate in Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee.The property is owned by the state of Tennessee and its official name is the Wynnewood State Historic Site, it includes an 1828 former inn that is the largest existing log structure in Tennessee.