TY  - GEN
AU  - Upton, Dell
TI  - Common places: readings in American vernacular architecture 
SN  - 0820307505
U1  - 720.973 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Georgia
PB  - University Of Georgia Press
N2  - 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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