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t1_j5z89gh wrote

Well to be more specific the lumber industry boom allowed cheap lumber in large quantities to be produced which led to the widespread adoption of "balloon framing" of houses, similar to the typical stud framing of today. This was opposed to the traditional timber framing methods which were much for labor and material intensive, not to mention requiring very skilled craftsmen to properly construct the house.

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t1_j5zb2er wrote

I used to live in a balloon frame house near a former large lumber operation on the CT River. During renovations I found the lathe and plaster guy signed the date in an ‘interior/insulation’ layer, ‘Oct 1888’.

The entire neighborhood had a sort of row house construction - nearly all the houses were the same design and built at the same time.

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