Stewarding Your Timber Frame Home and Barn

This session will help homeowners better understand their timber frame homes and structures. How do timber frames work? What are the principles behind timber frame construction? What advantages does it offer over other building methods? How do you know when repairs are needed, and how do you navigate contractors who may want to rip out all the old material? We will discuss these among other topics around understanding and maintaining timber frame homes and barns.

About the Presenter, Sophie Linnell

Sophie Linnell is a preservation carpenter and sculptor based in Boston, MA.

She brings a deep curiosity for how historic architecture is not irrelevant by nature of it being oriented in the past, but in fact integral to giving both context and inspiration to contemporary design.

After graduating with a B.A. in Studio Art & Design, she worked for a college art program in Italy. Upon returning to the States she worked as a stone mason before completing two years of studies in preservation carpentry at the North Bennet Street School. Since then, Sophie has worked in the field, individually (Linnell Restorations, LLC), and in collaboration with Owlsworth Conservation, MLB Restorations, and Matt Diana Housewright. She holds a Construction Supervisors License. In addition to her field work, Sophie is interested in learning from historic structures, preserving their presence, and sensitivelyrk, Sophie teaches undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses: Architectural Design/Build, Sculptural Architecture, Historic Timber Framing, Preservation Carpentry Intensive, 3D Art & Design, Woodcarving, and Sculpture.

Sophie is interested in learning from historic structures, preserving their presence, and sensitively adapting them to contemporary life in such a way that leads to a work that speaks truth to the embodied, connective human experience.

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Host or Publisher Newburyport Preservation Trust