In the United States alone, there are buildings that have stood the test of time for hundreds of years!

There are buildings in New Mexico dating back to 1000 AD-1450 AD, but they’re made from adobe (Earth mixed with water and straw). But I’m not speaking to building materials of stone, adobe or similar.

There are wooden homes in American from the 1600s that are still intact and functional buildings to this day!

The oldest wooden home, is the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, which was built around 1637 and housed 8 generations of the Fairbanks family before being sold and repurposed as a museum!

How could a home made of such a soft material (considering the alternative building materials of the time) last almost 400 years now?

Johnathan Fairbanks hired a master carpenter to build the home for him; he did not set to erect such a home without…