It wasn’t so long ago that the humble A-frame house — so named because of its silhouette’s similarity to the triangular letter — was a bygone architectural relic. These small chalets, which flourished ...

A curious group of onlookers gathered around the intersection of Bennett Avenue and Park Boulevard Tuesday morning to watch a piece of Wildwood history be taken away. The red A-frame house that was ...

PROVIDENCE − The historic and regal Nightingale-Brown House on Benefit Street has drawn lots of attention since it was built more than 200 years ago. And the house's wooden frame has drawn no small ...

Brooklyn is slated to lose a number of its wood frame houses to development this year. Often these houses are some of the oldest in the borough, although they may not look like much, at least from the ...

A team of engineers in Buffalo, N.Y., recently built a house on a shake table — a device that can simulate an earthquake. They wanted to see how a typical wood-frame house would fare in a quake. The ...

When a father and son hired architect Joseph Koelbel to restore the exterior of their 1870s Greenpoint row house, the wood-frame house had been stripped of most of its original detail over time. The ...

Standing tall on a Brooklyn Heights corner, this sandy house with wood siding commands rare curb appeal in a city where brick, stone and glass buildings dominate the streetscape. Its scarlet shutters ...

Show-Me Central Habitat for Humanity teamed up with Frame the World to build a house frame in one day on Saturday. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit housing organization that provides individuals ...

Dedham historians claim the Fairbanks House as the oldest timber-frame house in the United States. According to the Fairbanks House Museum and the Dedham Historical Society, the house was constructed ...