It was the real thing, grass-thatched, hand-hewn beams that were lashed with cocoanut sennit, and all the rest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Farm Restoration Adam Friedberg for The Wall Street Journal Over the years the barn had shifted from its original, hand-hewn English frame and use as a sheep barn (1790) into Yankee dairy barn (1880). ❋ Nancy Keates (2011)
Back on the main island we visit a dhow boatyard, to see how the craft is constructed, hand-hewn from teak imported from India. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)
Figures of men crawled out of the holes, or disappeared into them, or, on raised platforms of hand-hewn timber, windlassed the thawed gravel to the surface, where it immediately froze. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Since the original frame was still visible within the existing structure, with its hand-hewn timbers clearly distinguishable from the later sawn timbers, they kept that—but they decided to adhere more to the Yankee version of the structure. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Adam Friedberg for The Wall Street Journal Over the years the barn (shown here, restored) had shifted from its original, hand-hewn English frame and use as a sheep barn (1790) into Yankee dairy barn (1880). ❋ Unknown (2011)
Inter they climbed the earthquake~racked belfry, noting the hand-hewn timbers; and in the gallery, discovering the pure quality of their voices, Saxon, trembling at her own temerity, softly sang the opening bars of "Jesus Lover of My Soul." ❋ Unknown (2010)
The table was of hand-hewn spruce boards, and the men who played whist had frequent difficulties in drawing home their tricks across the uneven surface. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Log-bastions, church, and stables hold their own, and so well, with rusty hinges creaking, that we warmed ourselves at the hundred-years-old double fireplace and slept under the hand-hewn roof beams still held together by spikes of hand-wrought iron. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The original hand-hewn beams and wide floorboards were intact, along with the old windows, distressed doors and wood paneling around the fireplaces. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)
VHT The six-bedroom main house has hand-hewn beams and hardwood flooring throughout. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)
Two wooden headboards, likewise hand-hewn, told the state Little David, born 1855, died 1859; and Little ❋ Unknown (2010)
Cooper and Greenlaw — on what is called the Hill Ranch they left two of their dead, "Little Lillie" and "Little David," who rest to-day inside a tiny square of hand-hewn palings. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Over the years the barn had shifted from its original, hand-hewn English frame and use as a sheep barn (1790) into a Yankee dairy barn (1880). ❋ Nancy Keates (2011)
(Settlers Cooper and Greenlaw on what is called the Hill Ranch left two of their dead, 'Little Lillie' and 'Little David,' who rest to-day inside a tiny square of hand-hewn palings) ❋ Unknown (2010)
The three-bedroom home has hand-hewn beams, wide floorboards and distressed doors. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)
