The Pennsylvania Barn
The Pennsylvania Barn

Author: Robert F. Ensminger

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003-04-28

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780801871344

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In his widely acclaimed The Pennsylvania Barn, Robert Ensminger provided the first comprehensive study of an important piece of American vernacular architecture—the forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania German barn. Now, in this revised edition, Ensminger has continued his diligent fieldwork and archival research into the origins, evolution, and distribution in North America of this significant agricultural structure. Including an entire chapter of new material, 85 new illustrations, and updates to previous chapters, this edition of Ensminger's classic work will appeal to students and scholars in cultural and historical geography, folklore and vernacular architectural history, and American studies, as well as to general readers.

Barns of the Midwest
Barns of the Midwest

Author: Allen G. Noble

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 082144655X

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Originally published in 1995, Barns of the Midwest is a masterful example of material cultural history. It arrived at a critical moment for the agricultural landscape. The 1980s were marked by farm foreclosures, rural bank failures, the continued rise of industrialized agriculture, and severe floods and droughts. These waves of disaster hastened the erosion of the idea of a pastoral Heartland knit together with small farms and rural values. And it wasn’t just an idea that was eroded; material artifacts such as the iconic Midwestern barn were also rapidly wearing away. It was against this background that editors Noble and Wilhelm gathered noted experts in history and architecture to write on the nature and meaning of Midwestern barns, explaining why certain barns were built as they were, what types of barns appeared where, and what their functions were. Featuring a new introduction by Timothy G. Anderson, Barns of the Midwest is the definitive work on this ubiquitous but little studied architectural symbol of a region and its history.

The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania
The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania

Author: Gregory D. Huber

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780764353192

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For 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.

Amish Houses & Barns
Amish Houses & Barns

Author: Stephen Scott

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002-03-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1680992198

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A study of three Amish homesteads: one in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, one in Holmes County, Ohio, and one in LaGrange County, Indiana. Scott examines the history and cultural development of a typical Amish house and barn, one in each of the three largest Amish communities in North America. Home is the center of Amish life and most life events:birth, marriage, daily work and play, retirement, and even death happen there. Stephen Scott explores the history and cultural development of three Amish homesteads, each of which has been occupied by the current family of residence for at least four generations. The Stoltzfus Farm of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Yoder-Miller Farm of Holmes County, Ohio, the Bontrager-Miller Farm of LaGrange County, Indiana. Amish Houses and Barns also includes a photographic essay of typical Amish architecture in each of the three communities. Its numerous anecdotal stories,"Barn Fire," "The Farm Is Strip-Mined," and "Amish Style Graffiti", enhance the human story.

Hex Signs
Hex Signs

Author: Don Yoder

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780811727990

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Investigates the possible meanings of hex-sign barn decorations, both historically and at the present.

Diversity and Accommodation
Diversity and Accommodation

Author: Michael J. Puglisi

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780870499692

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The contributors to this collection argue that traditional views - of ethnic and cultural isolation, of German clannishness and Scots-Irish individualism - contain a kernel of truth but are far too restrictive and simplistic.

A Mixed Race
A Mixed Race

Author: Frank Shuffelton

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0195075234

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Focusing on the 18th century and colonial American values, this collection of essays explores the subject of ethnicity in the USA. Moving from questions of race and ethnicity to varieties of ethnic representation, it sheds light on the confrontations of ethnically different peoples.