>>18852057because lumber was and is insanely cheap in America. How is this hard for Europeans to understand? My great great great grandparents had to cut down trees by the thousands to make room for the farm. lumber just sat in piles looking for any use. My great grandparents ordered a house from a catalog. An entire house worth of wood and materials showed up and they built it. It's still standing. The barns are all built with enormous beams over a hundred years ago.