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Title: Homes on the Prairie
Post by: Jimmy C. on September 14, 2005, 02:48:40 PM

The Balloon Frame
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses/homes_balloon.html

The L
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses/homes_l.html

Title: Re: Homes on the Prairie
Post by: John Raabe on September 14, 2005, 08:13:29 PM

Thanks Jimmy:

Good overview links to understanding the early evolution of the frame house. These were the owner-builders of thier time. Keep it simple. Farmers could build a house with machine cut lumber and nails.

Not much has really changed... well, nail guns, OSB and plywood make it now stronger and easier to build.

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