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  2. 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.

  3. Lath and plaster - Wikipedia

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    Lath and plaster largely fell out of favour in the U.K. after the introduction of plasterboard in the 1930s. [2] In Canada and the United States, wood lath and plaster remained in use until the process was replaced by transitional methods followed by drywall (the North American term for plasterboard) in the mid-twentieth century. [citation needed]

  4. Timeline of North American prehistory - Wikipedia

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    c. 900–1150: Ancestral Pueblo culture dominates much of the American Southwest. During this time, it was generally classed as the Pueblo II Period. [6] 900: American Southwestern tribes trade with Indigenous peoples of Mexico to obtain copper bells cast through the lost-wax technique.

  5. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the twentieth century, steel and concrete construction were themselves becoming the subject of historical investigation. The Construction History Society was formed in the UK in 1982. [ 30 ] [ failed verification ] It produces the only academic international journal devoted to the subject, Construction History , twice annually.

  6. Plaster - Wikipedia

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    Stucco plaster reliefs, such as this work at the Château de Fontainebleau, were hugely influential in Northern Mannerism. A plaster low-relief decorative frieze is above it. Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. [1]

  7. Plasterwork - Wikipedia

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    The earliest plasters known to us were lime-based. Around 7500 BC, the people of 'Ain Ghazal in Jordan used lime mixed with unheated crushed limestone to make plaster which was used on a large scale for covering walls, floors, and hearths in their houses.

  8. Outline of the history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)

  9. Mound Builders - Wikipedia

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    In 19th-century America, many popular mythologies surrounding the origin of the mounds were in circulation, typically involving the mounds being built by a race of giants. A New York Times article from 1897 described a mound in Wisconsin in which a giant human skeleton measuring over 9 feet (2.7 m) in length was found. [ 60 ]