Common places readings in American vernacular architecture
Publication details: 1986 University Of Georgia Press GeorgiaDescription: xxiv,529pISBN:- 0820307505
- 720.973 UPT
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CONTENT
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xiii
Part One. Definitions and Demonstrations
Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion 3
FRED B. KNIFFEN
Acculturation in the Shenandoah Valley: Rhenish Houses of the Massanutten Settlement 27
EDWARD A. CHAPPELL
The Shotgun House: An African Architectural Legacy 58
JOHN MICHAEL VLACH
The American Bungalow 79
CLAY LANCASTER
Eighteenth-Century Field Patterns as Vernacular Art 107
STEWART G. MCHENRY
The Central Courthouse Square in the American County Seat 124
EDWARD T. PRICE
Part Two. Construction
Early Rhode Island Houses 149
NORMAN MORRISON ISHAM AND ALBERT F. BROWN
Building in Wood in the Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective 759
FRED B. KNIFFEN AND HENRY GLASSIE
The Tools Used in Building Log Houses in Indiana 182
WARREN E. ROBERTS
The Dutch Barn in America: Survival of a Medieval Structural Frame 204
THEODORE H. M. PRUDON
Part Three. Function
Inside the Massachusetts House 219
ABBOTT LOWELL CUMMINGS
Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America 240
KENNETH L. AMES
Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working-Class Homes, 1885-1915 261
LIZABETH A. COHEN
Part Four. History
Alley Landscapes of Washington 281
JAMES BORCHERT
Domestic Architecture at the Clifts Plantation: The Social Context of Early Virginia Building 292
FRASER D. NEIMAN
Vernacular Domestic Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Virginia 315
DELL UPTON
"Set Thine House in Order": The Domestication of the Yeomanry in Seventeenth-Century New England 336
ROBERT BLAIR ST. GEORGE
Part Five. Design and Intention
The Mansions of Alloways Creek 367
ALAN GOWANS
Eighteenth-Century Cultural Process in Delaware Valley Folk Building 394
HENRY GLASSIE
Just Folks Designing: Vernacular Designers and the Generation of Form 426
THOMAS HUBKA
Vernacular Building and Victorian Architecture: Midwestern American Farm Homes 433
FRED W. PETERSON
Jacob W. Holt: An American Builder 447
CATHERINE W. BISHIR
Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design 482
BARBARA RUBIN
Further Reading 509
Notes on Contributors 579
Index 523
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