It sounds mystical, but it's true. Nels Houghton's dream was the catalyst that brought Daniel Schwartz, an Amish craftsman who specializes in timber-frame buildings, from El Dorado Springs, Mo., to ...

BILLINGS - It sounds mystical, but it's true. Nels Houghton's dream was the catalyst that brought Daniel Schwartz, an Amish craftsman who specializes in timber-frame buildings, from El Dorado Springs, ...

When Dave and Becky Lime purchased a 2.5-acre lot on Linwood Lake near Wyoming, Minn., during the mid-'80s, they decided to take on an ambitious project: building a timber frame home. Timber framing ...

SCOTTS — The sound of rapping mallets echoed around the grounds at Tillers International farm in Scotts last week as the spring timber framing class drove razor sharp chisels across freshly milled ...

Timber framing is one of the oldest still-used building techniques for the simple reason that it is an efficient and elegant use of materials. Unlike most timber framers in the states, OakBridge does ...

The Amish have long been famous for barn raisings. Now, they're becoming known for building houses for the non-Amish, often using ancient construction techniques. About 600 Amish contractors or ...

Construction is not an unusual sight along the Texas Gulf Coast these days, but this week on Bolivar Peninsula, residents have been seeing something a little different at one site. Bearded men in ...

Brooklyn-based studio Osso Architecture has built a pool house on a New Jersey horse farm, utilising standard timber framing and the skills of the local Amish community. The pool house was completed ...

MIDDLE TOWNSHIP — Stan Sperlak had a vision of what his barn should look like, and he may have found the one construction company that could deliver it. Sperlak, 51, of Goshen, had heard about Amish ...

— -- Inside his workshop near Dover, Del., Bennie Troyer, an Amish man, shapes and assembles wood. He builds about 30 to 35 custom kitchen cabinet sets a year, and each set takes about a week and ...