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Show Figure 146: Half dovetail corner timbering, Behunnin house, Spring City. The logs have been hewn flat with a broad axe and the interstices filled with soft local bricks. These two different Sanpete Valley log building systems represent the major horizontal timbering traditions found in the United States during the nineteenth century. The chinked log technique and its accompanying corner timbering types, dovetailing and half-dovetailing, was introduced into the American colonies during the eighteenth century by German 262 |
