The Pennsylvania Barn and Its Influence on Contemporary Domestic Architecture
Author: Larry Richard Pollock
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 58
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The Pennsylvania Barn
Author: Robert F. Ensminger
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania-German barn, is one of the most important agricultural structures to have been brought to North America from Europe. It was so ideally suited to agricultural practices on this side of the Atlantic - at least in the humid East and humid West - that it evolved and spread throughout the corn and wheat belts, from the Tidewater to Nebraska, Washington, and Oregon, from northern New York and southern Ontario to Tennessee and Texas." "In The Pennsylvania Barn Robert Ensminger provides the first comprehensive study of this important piece of American vernacular architecture. He offers a detailed examination of the Swiss prototype, including the emergence of the barn forebay in Switzerland. He traces the evolution of the barn in North America, charts its distribution, and considers its future." "The culmination of more than fifteen years of research, The Pennsylvania Barn will prove to be of value not only to cultural and historical geographers but also to everyone with an interest in folklore and architectural history - especially vernacular architecture and material culture. The text is supplemented with more than 40 maps and diagrams and 150 photographs."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Author: Gregory D. Huber
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780764353192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor anyone who has ever admired a barn on an old country lane, this is the story of that barn and many others in Southeastern Pennsylvania, or, specifically, "the hearth," the area east of the Susquehanna River and South of the Blue Mountains. One of the earliest-settled areas in North America, this region of the Keystone State, which includes Lehigh, Bucks, and Lancaster Counties, is home to an astounding 20,000 standing barns, in various states of repair, built from the early 1800s on. Discussed in this text are the primary factors that have determined the fundamental structures and appearances of the six great barn classifications, including forest resources. Other featured topics are architectural aspects and regionalisms, dates of construction, survival of 18th-century examples, mysterious decorations, and barn preservation. Completing this treatise are representative color photographs, building plan sketches, charts conveying the prevalence of types, and a glossary of barn terms.
Capital Drawings
Author: Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-12-09
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0801872324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis elegant volume, a guide to the Library of Congress's massive collection of architectural drawings, offers a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital. Each of its "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of the building's creators and sponsors. 55 color illustrations. 123 halftones.
Beach Houses
Author: Alastair Gordon
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2003-04
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1568983212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor clients in the Hamptons, the Jersey shore, and in New England, Andrew Geller built dozens of houses, most of wood, and most on modest budgets. These spirited houses, many shown here for the first time through vintage photos and drawings, still delight today and will inspire anyone interested in beach house living. 85 photos, 25 in color.
Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Constructing Identity in Early America
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Publisher: Penn State Press
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Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780271047430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did a mid-eighteenth-century group, the so-called Pennsylvania Germans, build their cultural identity in the face of ethnic stereotyping, nostalgic ideals, and the views imposed by outside contemporaries? Numerous forces create a group's identity, including the views of outsiders, insiders, and the shaping pressure of religious beliefs, but to understand the process better, we must look to clues from material culture. Cynthia Falk explores the relationship between ethnicity and the buildings, personal belongings, and other cultural artifacts of early Pennsylvania German immigrants and their descendants. Such material culture has been the basis of stereotyping Pennsylvania Germans almost since their arrival. Falk warns us against the typical scholarly overemphasis on Pennsylvania Germans' assimilation into an English way of life. Rather, she demonstrates that more than anything, socioeconomic status and religious affiliation influenced the character of the material culture of Pennsylvania Germans. Her work also shows how early Pennsylvania Germans defined their own identities.
Crafting a Modern World
Author: Kurt Helfrich
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2006-10-12
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781568985831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Crafting a Modern World examines a missing chapter in the history of mid-century modernism: the story of husband and wife design team Antonin and Noemi Raymond. This is the first comprehensive book in English on the duo that creatively transformed design from 1917 to 1966."--BOOK JACKET.
Barns of New York
Author: Cynthia G. Falk
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0801464455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State—from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Southern Tier to the North Country—providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York. Through descriptions of the appearance and working of representative historic farm buildings, Barns of New York also serves as an authoritative reference for historic preservation efforts across the state.Cynthia G. Falk connects agricultural buildings—both extant examples and those long gone—with the products and processes they made and make possible. Great attention is paid not only to main barns but also to agricultural outbuildings such as chicken coops, smokehouses, and windmills. Falk further emphasizes the types of buildings used to support the cultivation of products specifically associated with the Empire State, including hops, apples, cheese, and maple syrup.Enhanced by more than two hundred contemporary and historic photographs and other images, this book provides historical, cultural, and economic context for understanding the rural landscape. In an appendix are lists of historic farm buildings open to the public at living history museums and historic sites. Through a greater awareness of the buildings found on farms throughout New York, readers will come away with an increased appreciation for the state's rich agricultural and architectural legacy.
Eric Sloane's an Age of Barns
Author: Eric Sloane
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPortrays how Americans lived in the past and shows how they reasoned and what their attitude toward life was--their personal aspirations and national purpose.
