Featured in 2000:

The Timber Frame Plan Book
The Building Cast by Michael Morris and Dick Pirozzolo

(Quick Note:  One of the greatest compliments that a designer and builder can have is to have his work featured on the cover of a book dedicated to the art of his trade.  That happened in the Timber Frame Plan Book, published in 2000 as the authors and publishers made the decision to feature Mark Kirkpatrick creations on the front and back cover...as well as within.  Here are some excerpts from that book.)

Producer:  Hearthstone, Inc.
Designer: Mark Kirkpatrick

Built at an elevation of more than 4,000 feet, this timberframe home was engineered to withstand winds in excess of 150 miles per hour - yet there is not one metal fastener in the mortise-and-tenon, solid-oak frame.

In addition to strength and stability, the owner wanted his mountaintop retreat to meld with the site and reflect the nature of its impressive surroundings-North Carolina's Beech Mountain, Grandfather Mountain, and Sugar Mountain.

To meet the challenge, designer-builder Mark Kirkpatrick responded with a design that includes a towering central mass whose peaks are repeated in the entryway dormers and nearby summits.  The fieldstone facade completes the architectural statement that clearly says this is a mountain home.

Of note is the way the exterior motif is repeated on the interior with a twenty-eight-foot-high cathedral ceiling, floor-to-ceiling fieldstone fireplace, and a gracefully curved main staircase with open steps that are rough-hewn from hefty half logs.

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