1​) Peckham Barn Home & Garage - Residence Millford, Pennsylvania

Reconstructed timber frame barn home, flooring, interior walls ,doors, plaster, siding and wood ceiling.  My workforce completed 70% of the work. Reconstructed barn frame converted to garage and shop and multi use, with attached breezeway. My workforce did all but masonry and electrical.  Owner was GC.  Year  2003

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​2) Elias Church Pulpit - Mifflinburg, Pa.

​Reproduction of original wine glass style Pulpit. Size was determined through forensic investigations and written documentations. Design was through extant vernacular surviving examples. All mortise and tenon joinery, site built. Completed October, 2011

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​3) Pace One -Restaurant Addition - Thornton, Delaware Co. Pennsylvania

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4) Pemberton Hall Milk House - Pemberton Hall Museum, Salisbury, Maryland

25” X 60’  Timber Frame  built and erected as a major addition to complex owned by Bill Clinger.
Shop built, and raised inside stud wall framing which was a logistic decision for insulated wall system. My  workforce responsible for sizing and joinery of timbers; raising on site, securing with custom brackets, and installed ceiling boards.
Completed  December 2009

Timber top louver and roof system. Extant example of c.1775 dairy building in colonial Eastern Shore Maryland. Shop designed and built. Timber joinery on top of full dovetail logs. Salvaged logs were used and re-sawn on band sawmill so as to replicate a pit sawn log. Interior shelved and lime plastered. Exterior white wash and plastered cove. Built on original brick footprint.  Completed September 2008 with 100% my workforce.

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5) St. Peter’s Steeple  - Freeburg, Pennsylvania

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112’ Timber frame Church Steeple, built in 1865. Many failed timbers necessitated it’s complete disassembly. Over the course of 4 months we completely removed the structure and made new pieces following original joinery. The frame was then lifted back on the church section by section. Siding and trim was paint striped, restored and attached. The Bell wheel was restored, new lead coated copper dome and roof coverings, new wood sheathing and salvaged slate covers the 45’ tall spire. My crew completed all major work.

6) Timber Frame & Log Pool House - Mclean, Virginia. ​Owner - Matt Mudd

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The timber frame was made from salvaged barn timbers utilizing the principle rafter / dropped purlin system. My workforce completed all joinery and finishes inside and out, but did not do any of the masonry, mechanicals or electrical work. The log wing was a modified log structure c.1840. The metal roof was an old fashioned style standing seam. Material was lead coated copper. ​Completed August, 2001

7) Reconstructions

Over the years I have done a fair amount of stone work. It has all involved using salvaged stone from early houses or barn foundations. I have built solid stone walls and foundations as well as period fireplaces. I have also ​dismantled a stone Canal Hotel near Liverpool Pennsylvania and reconstructed the stone on a new frame out-side Northumberland Pennsylvania. I have stone faced foundations and do stone wall repair and restoration. At this stage of my career I do not use portland based mortars, I use lime base mortars and plasters along with clay base or combinations of them in my brick work, stone work, daubing, and plaster work.

​Frank P Stroik -
The Country Homestead
PO Box 188, 552 Kreamer Ave.
Kreamer, Pennsylvania 17833
Pa #101613 "NJ #13VH07882100
MD Reg #03465151
570-374-7122 "(Mobile 570-847-9133)
[email protected]