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Shops Most of the shops back then were small by today’s standards. Many of them were in barns, some merely in driveways, others in ramshackle structures. After three years of working in a driveway my partner and I built, with mostly recycled material, a 32’x38’ shop. It was like heaven to us. For the first […]

LCTF was recently chosen to carve and raise a timber framed roof system of  vintage timbers and ceiling boards for the lodge at the Allentown Classic Motor Car Park.  The structure measuring 93 feet by 182 feet is situated on twenty acres which includes several restoration shops, a museum, an office, a soon to be […]

Depth of Experience Because timber framing in America lay mostly dormant from the late 1800’s until the 1970’s, and because the resurgence didn’t really pick up momentum until the early 1980’s, the playing field for companies was somewhat level. Very few timber frame companies had a depth of past projects that they could point to […]