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020 _a0820307505
082 _a720.973
_bUPT
100 _aUpton, Dell
245 _aCommon places
_breadings in American vernacular architecture
260 _c1986
_bUniversity Of Georgia Press
_aGeorgia
300 _axxiv,529p.
520 _aCONTENT 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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