House & Home: Post and Girt

House & Home is an exhibition at the National Building Museum, opening 4/28/12:
http://go.nbm.org/house-home

In this video Peter Rivers, Historic Building Curator at Historic St. Mary's City, explains the Post and Girt wall section he built for the exhibition. The exhibition also features sample wall sections of adobe brick and balloon framing.

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