From the late 1800s until about 1940, balloon-frame wood construction was a fast and easy way to construct multi-story homes found primarily in the East and Midwest. The balloon frame uses a ...

Like a half-built house with an inverted gable roof, the installation gives visitors a visceral sense of the expandability of balloon framing, which blows up to fill the gallery walls much as ...

In those balloon-framed homes, studs ran from the foundation to the roof, a long open space that channeled flames up the full length of a wall in a burning building. Modern wood framing interrupts ...

Typically, Type V wood-framed towers utilize platform framing ... Another option, which is more popular for Type III structures, consists of balloon framing, in which the floor framing hangs ...