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- FARM FACILTIES
- Thatched roofs have to be built on 60 degrees pitch or greater. Most roofs in the Midwest are one third or half pitch roofs. The planks are generally hand split oak. Through Chicago, pine shingles started being used more. Some slate roofs, but slate has to be imported. Steeper roofs take longer to build and take more material. Thatched roofs have to be harvested. Early settlers to the Midwest would build cabins. William Payne wrote publications in the late 1700s about how to build cabins and barns. Siding was built in six to eight food lengths. Benefit of ribbon clapboard oak siding is they can last up to two hundred years.
