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Mike and Corrine Beaver are building a house on a bluff overlooking Fort Gibson Lake.
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Workers are laying the upper courses of the stone Mike and Corrine Beaver are using to build their home.
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The front entrance of the home Mike and Corrine Beaver are building is framed with stone arches and two-story columns.
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The stones used for the masonry are 7 inches thick, Beaver said. “Most rocks used in masonry are 4 inches.” The rocks add weight and structuralstrength, as well as insulation. “There are 200,000 pounds of rock on this,” Rhodes said.
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Workers are laying the upper courses of the stone Mike and Corrine Beaver are using to build their home.
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Mike and Corrine Beaver's new home commands a wide view of Fort Gibson Lake
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The great room in the Mike and Corrine Beaver home is open with beamed ceiling and a wall of windows facing onto the lake.
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This area of the home will become a mother-in-law apartment.
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The interior of the Beaver home will be finished with fine woodwork.
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Trim carpenter Jason Holmes nails a piece into position on the overhang that is also a balcony in the great room.
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Thomas Hambrick cuts a section of trim to length.
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Mike and Corrine Beaver are building a house on a bluff overlooking Fort Gibson Lake.
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Mike and Corrine Beaver have quick access to recreation on Fort Gibson Lake from their new house on a bluff above the lake.
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