Hi Ken;
I do not have any personal photos, but there are some on the internet. One is at
http://www.maisonsdespatriotes.com/produit.cfm under the name "Pièces sur pièces avec poteaux à coulisse". More searching using the names listed below will produce more photos using Google Images.
You didn't ask for it, but here is more information on this building method:
Pièce sur pièce en coulisse (French: piece on piece sliding in a groove) Horizontal wood pieces (poles, beams, planks) tenoned into grooves in posts. This type of construction allows shorter timbers to be used and a building can be extended an indefinite length by adding more bays, typically measuring ten feet. Similar methods of construction are found in most if not all Viking settled regions and was common in Scandinavia. It is one of the earliest building types of French-Canada used extensively by the Hudson’s Bay Company for trading posts across Canada. It became a common, widespread building method in Canada. Other French names reflect the shape of wood (bois) used between the posts such as planche en coulisse, madriers-, or pieux-. Also recorded in French as bois en coulisse, poteaux en coulisse, madriers en coulisse, poteaux entourées de pieux, charpente entourée de madriers, poteaux entourées de madriers, en poteaux et close de pieux, en pieux sur pieux. (Lessard and Vilandré 1974:117)
Used in the United States predominantly in early French forts and settlements along the Mississippi River, though examples also occur in other states including Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and Michigan where the it is the construction method of oldest house in the state (Navarre-Anderson Trading Post, 1789)
Also known as Red River Frame, Hudson’s Bay Style, Hudson’s Bay Corners, Rocky Mountain Frame, and Manitoba Frame, “Métis” style, the “French” style, slotted post construction, panel construction, section panel, and post-and-panel. May have earth-fast posts or posts on a sill. James Hébert incorrectly presented it as “an entirely Canadian style” (Culture Built Upon the Land…Thesis 2007). Similar in construction with horizontal planks in grooved posts Swedish sleppvegg, skiftesverk (shift work), and Danish bulhuse (bole house). Also known other parts of central Europe, Medieval British Isles, including ständerbohlenbau (Switzerland, Austria and S. Germany), sumikowo-latkowej, (Poland), “a ritti e panconi” (Spain), and ? in Russia. Cf. corner post construction
This entry in my records in not totally complete. Also, there are a number of building methods which use vertical planks in a frame which are not listed here.
Jim
