Nightingale Floors: Simple Technique Turns Floorboards Into an Alarm System
Here’s a fun flooring fact for building geeks: a type of flooring called ‘nightingale’ or uguisu-bari uses a special structure to make noise when…
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Look At Them Now! Three Well-Preserved Colonial Homes in Virginia & Maryland
Continuing our series looking back at colonial structures that have been featured in NeLMA’s White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, let’s examine a few…
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Roebling Bridge: Historic Delaware River Structure Made of Eastern White Pine
One of the Northeast’s most curious wooden structures, the Roebling Bridge, represents a fun slice of Eastern White Pine history that still stands today….
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Look at Them Now! Farmhouses of the New York City Area, 200+ Years Later
Recently, we took a look at some of the old colonial houses featured in the second-ever issue of the White Pine Series of Architectural…
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White Pine Monographs: Dalton House and Other Early Massachusetts Treasures
An important stop along the development of New England’s colonial architecture, simple farmhouses of the early to mid 18th Century shed some of the…
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Celebrating Eastern White Pine: Maine’s Enduring Love for Its State Tree
Spotting towering Eastern White Pine trees in the forests and on rocky outcroppings, New England’s first settlers must have marveled at their majestic heights….
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