As far as our local community is concerned, where I live in Indiana, there is not a very big tradition of timber framed house construction. There is a long lived and significant tradition of timber barn construction which here was only supplanted by a combination of the economic collapse of the 1930's, world war II, and the explosion of easy-built construction post war. We have timber barns built right up to the 30's

Houses were built first in the log cabin manner -some of which according to the evidence at hand were originally built for the Indians. Then houses were built mostly of solid brick with very few timber framed homes.

Barns are a different story.
Our oldest barns still standing are log barns. these are exceedingly rare. The oldest full sized barns of of the Schweizer style, large forebay barns. These were built by Amish and Brethren settlers -the first people to settle this part of the country. Then beyond that, it just moves into the realm of the common midwest purlin barn types built mostly for dairy use.

Settlement here began in the 1840's...