Dr. Glanzer used a different technique in the Rockies: A wood frame supports a 1.5-inch-thick facade of fake stone colored and chemically distressed to give the illusion of age.

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It was a beautiful wreck, an 1853 wood frame.

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The fire moved quickly through the house, a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas.

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Chad Attwood found that out when he and his wife, Valerie Frances, moved a historic, two-story wood-frame home in Odenton, Md.

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For three centuries, generations of Wings slept in that sturdy wood-frame house before the family eventually turned it into a museum.

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Their two-level, wood-frame house was built in 1995.

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His two-story wood-frame home was engulfed in flames.

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The frame is no longer assembled from laser-etched wood, instead there's a powder-coated steel frame with PVC plastic sides to help shield the various moving parts and lend an air of professionalism to the affair.

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He said he told Walbridge he was worried about rotting wood in the Bounty's frame.

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Here and there, an empty frame showed triangles of glass still clinging to the wood.

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