The Return of Cordwood Construction for Homes

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The exterior of a cordwood constructed home.
The exterior of a cordwood constructed home.
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Cordwood construction returns to the homestead.
Cordwood construction returns to the homestead.
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The interior of a cordwood constructed home.
The interior of a cordwood constructed home.

The Jack Henstridge family’s book shares information on the return of cordwood construction to the homestead.

The Return of Cordwood Construction for Homes

Remember those great old monster movies . . . and the way they always seemed to turn into a whole series of motion pictures based on a single character? You know . First there was Frankenstein . .. then The Return Of Frankenstein . . . then Bride of Frankenstein . . . then Son of Frankenstein . . . then Frankenstein Meets the Werewolf . . . and on and on and on.

Well, that’s the way we’re beginning to feel about the Jack Henstridge family’s dynamite article, “We Built a $75,000 House for Only $10,000”, which appeared in MOTHER NO. 45. Because, since publishing that piece, the Henstridge Clan has been buried under an avalanche of mail . . . we’ve heard from a second promoter of the stackwood (but with a difference) building concept . . . and good ole Jack Henstridge hisself has been kind enough to send us an Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program booklet entitled “Housing for the North . . . The Stackwall System” (how’s that for being generous to the “competition”?) which outlines yet a third approach to constructing substantial — yet-snug —and extremely-low-cost homes from cordwood.

So stand back.’Cause here’s an update on all these developments . . . in a special three-part feature that we cleverly call:

  • Published on Sep 1, 1977
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