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Gazebo at Biltmore Lakes Asheville, NCA
cypress timber frame gazebo on a walking trail sits in
Biltmore Lakes, Asheville, North Carolina. Even the
railings were tenoned into the posts. The owners stained
the timbers with a fruitwood stain.
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Timber Frame Gazebo Highlands - Cashiers area,
NCIsn’t this a delightful
gazebo or play house for this young land urchin?
Designed, handcrafted, and raised by John Booker of
Cabin Creek Timber Frames and his son, Declan, in the
red shirt and red hair.
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Timber Frame Gazebo for Banner Manor Corp.
Boone, NC
A handcrafted
timber frame using crossed curved collar ties, crossed
hip rafters, and a central crown post and pendant. There
was no lack of imagination, ingenuity, or skill here.
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Compound Joinery Cooking Porch Nashville, TN
This is an unusual example of
a handcrafted timber frame cooking porch. It is
octagonal, I expect influenced by the architectural
ideas of Thomas Jefferson. Of white oak, it sits on
eight - 14 foot posts. Oak tongue and groove covers the
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Lullwater Cooking Porch Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta
is the site of this handcrafted cooking porch. It is
constructed of large Douglas fir timbers making up two
single hammer beam bents with a kingpost. The new
construction had to comply with the Historic
Preservation Commission guidelines and those set by
Frederic Law Olmstead 100 years ago. |
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Timber Frame Compound Joinery
Cabin
Creek Timber Frames
6624 Georgia Rd. Franklin,
NC 28734 |
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is a crossed hammer beam truss using a crown post
and pendant centrally. The hip rafters are anchored
on dragon beams and plates in each corner. For years
this served as our forklift shed until it was moved
to our new office and beamery to be the new design
center.
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Pavilion for Camp Arrowhead for Boys |
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http://www.camparrowhead.org
P.O. Box 248
Tuxedo, NC 28784
Note
how the left rafter continues upward toward the peak
to extend the same roof slope all the way across the
truss.
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| This 24 foot by 36 foot clear span
pavilion is attached to the timber frame climbing wall
at Camp Arrowhead for Boys, Tuxedo, NC. |
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timber frame climbing wall at Camp Arrowhead is
twenty-four feet high by thirty-six feet wide. The
campers learn to climb the wall using hand and foot
holds and are in climbing harnesses, under belay, and
under the constant supervision of the camp staff.
Adjacent to the timber frame climbing wall is the
twenty-four by thirty-six foot timber frame event
pavilion. |
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This timber frame pavilion is
frequently used for dances, parent’s day, and other
gatherings the camp puts on each year; and proves very
useful in rainy weather. The roof over the timber frame
events pavilion continues up to a ridge between the two,
then down over the climbing wall to provide shelter. It
is a neat combination of the two facilities.
Camp
Arrowhead for Boys celebrated its seventieth anniversary
July 2007. Camp Arrowhead for boys and Camp Glen Arden
for girls were started by Joseph O. Bell Jr. and his
wife Mary Kellogg Bell. Both camps are still operating
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| This 18' x 18' compound joinery timber
frame gazebo demonstrates an interesting combination of
joints including mortise and tenon joints, half lap
joints with pins on crossed knee braces, and a dragon
brace and beam to capture or support the lower end of a
hip rafter in each corner of the timber frame gazebo. |
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