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Open air museum of rural architecture, Bokrijk, Belgium.
A number of important examples of rural architecture in Belgium have been preserved and moved to an open air museum at Bokrijk (near Hasselt). Several of these have had their external wall coverings removed so that one can see the structure of their frames. Iron nails were seldom used. Posts and beams were joined with mortise and tenon joints, which were pegged with wooden dowels. (The early American colonists called these "treenails'.) Each joint is custom made; there were no standard measurements either in thickness of the beams or in length.
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Boston College
Jeffery Howe, 1997
