ORRINGTON, Maine (WABI) - If you want to learn how to build a timber frame barn, look no further than Orrington’s Curran Village. Starting today, the museum is holding a weeklong class on how to do ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

Timber-frame building experts say only a handful of family farms have chosen the quality and durability of the old-fashioned barns over economic pole barns. Most of their work is restoration of ...

Whit Holder has ventured inside the huge barns of Ohio and Pennsylvania to examine the joints that bind the massive timbers and to look at the aged tool marks of construction to see "how the old ...

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.