Vermont Frames is recognized as the winner of the Robert P. Lord, Sr. Founders Award – Academia, Specialty Construction for their outstanding work on the Vermont Commons School Outdoor Classroom in Charlotte, VT by the Associated General Contractors of Vermont (AGCVT). This project is a beautiful example of craftsmanship, creativity, and dedication to enhancing learning spaces for Vermont students.

Pictured (left to right): Richard Wobby, Jr., Executive Vice President AGCVT, Kevin Moyer, Owner Vermont Frames, Josh Rawlings, Sales & Operations Manager Vermont Frames, and Rye Matthews, Senior Designer Vermont Frames

The Better Home Awards have been bringing contractors and associates together for over 30 years to celebrate home-building and remodeling accomplishments. Vermont Frames won a BHA award for our participation on a monopitch timber frame in Killington, Vermont.

Vermont Frames project home (Cape Style Frame With Wings in Wilmington, VT) was submitted to and published in the Rural Builder Source Book 17.

Timber-frame houses possess a characteristic that most other house styles simply don’t have. It’s not just about aesthetics, although their exposed beams certainly are beautiful. It’s more about their inherent ability to exude craftsmanship, warmth, and strength, and the ageless mortise-and-tenon joinery technique conveys a sense of timelessness. Timber-frame homes are also a renewable resource, energy efficient, and incredibly strong, making them a great choice for northern climates…

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Starksboro, Vermont — May 26, 2025

Vermont Frames, a timber frame manufacturer and installer announce Kevin Moyer, Owner, has been awarded “Veteran Owned Business of the Year, Vermont and New England Regional Winner” by VermontBiz and U.S. Small Business Administration.

WILLISTON, Vt. — In honor of National Veterans Small Business Week, the Small Business Administration has planned a ‘Boots to Business Reboot’ at the Williston, Vermont, office.

There will also be resources to help military families access technical assistance, capital, and contracting opportunities.

Kevin Moyer was discharged from the Marines 10 years ago before becoming a small business owner in Starksboro. Moyer said his service played a critical role in his success as an entrepreneur.

Some high-profile projects by Vermont timber framers have been attracting attention over the past few years. Off Route 2 in Richmond, expert Eliot Lothrop is supervising a major, multiyear restoration of the 1901 East Monitor Barn. In France, a handful of Vermonters spent time last summer helping to rebuild Notre-Dame de Paris, the famous Gothic timber-frame cathedral constructed in the 1200s that was damaged by fire in 2019.

Kevin Moyer isn’t an expert in the hands-on, centuries-old tradition of timber framing, a construction method that uses mortise and tenon joinery — where a wooden piece is fitted into a hole. But he was so drawn to it that, in December 2022, he bought Starksboro’s Vermont Frames, a nearly 50-year-old business that makes timber-frame buildings the old-fashioned way.