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In April 1999, undergraduates from Boston's Massachusetts College of Art cut, assembled and raised a 12'x16' timber frame at the Hands House Studio, Norwell, Mass. The frame has already served as a touring demonstration of timber frame construction, and appeared at the Log Home and Timber Frame Home Show later that year in Worcester, Mass. It will ultimately serve as Joel McCarty's office in Alstead, New Hampshire. See related News stories.

The frame partially raised as the first demonstration at the Log Home and Timber Frame Home Show, Worcester, Mass.


Co-Executive Director Joel McCarty tells visitors to the home show about timber framing.


As the final demonstration of the day, Guild members Randy Churchill and Ridge Shinn install some rafters, while Joel explains the joinery involved.


Randy, Joel, Ridge. Right: Denny Hambruch, Leo Ojala, Richard Krouse, Ridge and Randy assist in disassembling the frame at show's end.