Timber Frame House

Famous quotes containing the words timber, frame and/or house:

    “The very timber and boards and shingles of which our houses are made grew but yesterday in a wilderness where the Indian still hunts and the moose runs wild.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “He drew the curse upon the world, and cracked
    The whole frame with his fall.
    This made him long for home, as loth to stay
    With murmurers and foes;”
    —Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

    “Just the same as a month before,—
    The house and the trees,
    The barn’s brown gable, the vine by the door,—
    Nothing changed but the hives of bees.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)