[notfarnow]

Originally posted by oldE
As for the question about whether someone would use pre-sawn lumber versus hand-hewn for framing, I suspect the answer would be the same as today: Depends upon the cost of materials and guy who built it. Did he prefer to use the tried and true post and beam as opposed to the "toothpicks held together with pins" new-fangled construction?
Les

Good point... I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday about this very thing. Apparently, his grandfather insisted on using a rubble & mortar foundation when he built his house in the 1930's... he didn't trust that"new-fangled" concrete. Figured if it was made with water, it would dissolve with water. That's how he learned to build houses when he was a young man, so that's how he build them later on.