The Ständerhaus is a form of post-and-beam house found in northern Germany and the Netherlands.

WHAT: A four-bedroom post-and-beam house.

The post-and-beam house is on an acre of land.

NINE out of 10 visitors to a modernist post-and-beam house here designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, exclaim, "Wow!"

They read a Nancy Drew mystery on the front porch of their post-and-beam house in Sullivan County, where the tang of autumn was in the air.

For another, the couple has built a post-and-beam house on 10 acres near Rhinebeck, N.Y., where the children can roam unrestricted.

Ross Perot, the former presidential candidate, recently added a 2,000-gallon spa to his post-and-beam house overlooking Bald Mountain.

A three-floor post-and-beam house with a stone foundation on the waterfront end of Warren Street recently dropped from $179,900 to $170,000.

The little red post-and-beam house, now enclosed by a corporate world, has been spruced up.

They are post-and-beam houses, a form of Ständerhaus, in which the house is supported on, usually four, but sometimes six or eight posts, depending on size, that are joined by longitudinal and transverse beams (Pfetten).