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May 6, 2004
Photo courtesy of Timbercraft Homes
Ben Brungraber engineered the timber-framed Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center near Mount St. Helens. Beams for the project were salvaged from old sheds.
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Most houses in Europe are still built using heavy wooden timbers, often joined together using techniques that woodworkers of the Middle Ages knew well. In America, timber-frame construction fell by the wayside as the nation industrialized and expanded westward.
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