A barn raising celebration is held for the new single-story, 30-foot-by-50-foot barn that is being constructed at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, which combines traditional post-and-beam ...

NEWTOWN — The mother of a slain Sandy Hook first grader drove the first birch peg into the timber frame with a large wooden mallet, sending rings through a stand of cathedral pines to the delight of a ...

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 ...

TAKES A VILLAGE: Barron Brown directs a crew at a barn raising near Marshall. Photo by Storms Reback It’s not every day you get invited to a barn raising, so when I did, I jumped at the opportunity.

ABOVE: Timber framer Alicia Spence works on a half-lap scarf joint, used to join two timbers end-to-end, at the 217-year-old Shepherd Barn on the grounds of Historic Northampton. Credit: STAFF PHOTOS ...

When JoAnn Lapoint became a grandmother, she decided to make good on her long-held desire for a guest house on her seven-acre riverside property in Kennebunk — for visiting family and to potentially ...

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 ...