Scars left by axes swung before the Civil War show the work of skilled builders who shaped timbers for use in homes, barns and warehouses long before cutting machinery came along. Each board or beam ...

Nathan Brown, the founder, and his sister Liz Brown, senior sales executive, by some of their wood at Old World Timber, 1195 Versailles Road in Lexington. Charles Bertram [email protected] ...

You’ve seen plenty of barns in your day. They are wooden buildings tucked into an open landscape, rising up from the land and sticking out like a sore thumb. The Barn designed by Alexis Dornier is a ...

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, ...

While some explore the outdoors just for sport, Ryan Trombley treks across the Rocky Mountains and Midwest on the hunt for old, dilapidated sheds and Mennonite barns built from chestnut, oak and black ...

After decades of serving as flooring in expensive West Coast and mountain estates, dismantled Ohio barns are finding a home in the Buckeye State. More Ohioans are using the old wood in their houses, ...

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 2017, Dutch design firm HilberinkBosch Architects found out that seven of their century-old oak trees were in ailing health and would need to be cut down. Instead of sending the oaks to the paper ...