I've never seen it here in the NC mountains, and I love to inspect old houses. It would be easy to build that way, and pretty well insulated.
Saw a new home circa 2001 built near Greensboro NC. Evidently the "builders framer " could not differentiate between an 8 ' and 9' high wall on the blueprints so he used built up 2x4s to go from 8 to 9 foot to cover his mistake . My dad would call that class of individual a shoemaker, Looked like crap but the Bldg Inspector passed it .
