As a child growing up in Big Sky country, Scott Butcher found a comforting appeal in rustic homes and barns. “I worked in my grandfather’s timber frame barn back in Montana, and loved the feel, the ...

TYNGSBORO — Even as the owners of Lawndale Farm are building something new, they are preserving the past. If you’ve driven down Frost Road recently past the farm, you may have noticed piles of chopped ...

CANE HILL -- Betty Colburn will have a front-row seat as Historic Cane Hill Inc. prepares to work on its next project. The nonprofit organization will restore the historic Colburn Barn, a ...

Whit Holder has ventured inside the huge barns of Ohio and Pennsylvania to examine the joints that bind the massive timbers and to look at the aged tool marks of construction to see "how the old ...

BRATTLEBORO — After several days of oppressive heat, it's a wonderfully cool and windy day at Rebop Farm, high on a hill on Sunset Lake Road in Brattleboro on Friday morning. Sitting in the shade of ...

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 ...

RAISING THE BARN: Chris Faulkner of Faulkner Woodworking and Rob Skeen of Bracken Mountain Builders work a post into its perfectly level place, under the watchful eyes of Terry Holdredge (a plastic ...

John Ebersole’s workshop, deep in the countryside of Christiana, smells of wood warmed by late-morning winter sunlight. It’s not a large space. Three visitors, plus Ebersole, are enough to make it a ...

TOWN OF BERLIN, Wis.—The decision to tear down the barn wasn’t an easy one for Ann and Jerry Ohde. At one time, it was gleaming white, and an important center of the life that Ann had built with her ...

The decision to tear down the barn wasn’t an easy one for Ann and Jerry Ohde. At one time, it was gleaming white and an important center of the life that Ann had built with her first husband, Nick ...