{"id":5176,"date":"2014-05-21T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.bigwoodtimberframes.com\/?page_id=5176"},"modified":"2019-05-30T19:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:22:43","slug":"about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bigwoodtimberframes.com\/?page_id=5176","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nch-lb-mediacontent\" data-wrap=\"post5176\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\"  style='background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-top-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;'><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row \"><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_1_1 fusion-builder-column-1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height 1_1\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">About Us<\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div  class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion_builder_column_2_3 fusion-builder-column-2 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first 2_3\"  style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;width:65.3333%; margin-right: 4%;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;\"   data-bg-url=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text\"><p>Big Wood Timber Frames Incorporated was started in 1991, by Dave Le Page and Mike Nicklaus after building a number of homes for a national franchise in the late 1980\u2019s.We purchased the \u201cGeorge E. Hess\u00a0 1883\u201d building located at 447 E. 7<sup>th<\/sup> Street \u00a0in historic lower town Saint Paul which served as our first timber frame work shop and now houses \u00a0our home office,\u00a0 showroom and design studio.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, we purchased the old Blue Ox Co-op, a feed mill and fertilizer facility in Brainerd, Minnesota, where we store and process our timbers and lumber. We quickly outgrew our 15,000 square foot shop space so in 2007, we disassembled the Minneapolis Racquet Club, a heavy timber frame building, and re-created it for use as our new 10,000 square foot shop space.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, we purchased a 5 acre piece of property near our Brainerd shop where we erected a 20,000 square foot storage facility. 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