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You can build wooden house that would stand 100+ years. Not US-style houses from planks, though, you just cut trees and use their trunks as a whole to build walls. Also you should protect it from the rotting.



There are a very large number of 100+ year old wooden homes in the eastern half of the US. Check out Zillow with the "year built" filter. Even if you set the filter to limit results to 1899 and older, the vast majority of homes are of wood construction.


Heck, I live in a 91 year old wood framed and clad home in California - this isn’t limited to the east coast.

This house is going to outlive me as well, barring a natural disaster (which it is better suited to withstand than a masonry home, given that my most likely disaster is an earthquake).




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