WEST CHAZY, N.Y. — The dumbest robins in New York state live on a ledge outside Rob Roy’s kitchen window. Or at least they would like to roost there. On a recent Monday morning, Roy, 65, and his wife, ...

"Cordwood Building" collects the wisdom of more than 25 of the world's best practitioners, detailing the long history of the method, and demonstrating how to build a cordwood home using the latest and ...

Learn about the advantages of building a home using cordwood construction. Unabashedly, I admit to two great love affairs in my life: with Jaki, my wife of 30 years, and (this one is shared with Jaki) ...

Earthwood, in upstate New York, was built using cordwood masonry. Rob and Jaki Roy laid cedar logs into a wall. Photographs by Tony Cenicola / The New York Times WEST CHAZY, New York - Rob and Jaki ...

KALAMAZOO, MI – This is not your ordinary log cabin. On a four-degree morning in Kalamazoo, masons were hard at work on cordwood construction, which as far as the builders and Kalamazoo College know, ...

La CRESCENT -- You see a pile of firewood. Alan Stankevitz sees a house. At least, that's what you get, Stankevitz says, if you combine thousands of chunks of wood, tons of mortar made of cement, sand ...

When Alan Stankevitz bought land near La Crescent, Minn., he knew he wanted to build an eco-friendly home there. But he wasn't sure what kind. An earth-sheltered house? "You need a crew to pour the ...

WEST CHAZY — Cordwood, mortar mix and insulating fill is all it takes to build a distinctive home, and Earthwood Building School can show you how. The West Chazy-based operation will have an Open ...

Traditional log cabins and timber-framed dwellings required "extensive lengths of straight, high-quality timber," Mr. Tishler wrote in "Cordwood Building: The State of the Art." The material for a ...