housewright

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A builder of houses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A builder of houses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).