A Modest Mennonite Home
A Modest Mennonite Home

Author: Steve Friesen

Publisher: Intercourse, Penn. : Good Books

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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In this 128 page book, Steve Friesen tells the story of the Hans Herr House located in an area known as "Conestoga" in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1719 by Mennonites who traveled west from Philadelphia to settle in this area of Pennsylvania. To this day, the house remains an integral part of not only Lancaster County history, but that of the settlement by Mennonites nearly 300 years ago. Includes several black and white photos, illustrations and a few color photos as well.

A Modest Homestead
A Modest Homestead

Author: Laurie J. Bryant

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 9781607815266

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Copublished with the Utah State Historical Society. Affiliated with the Utah Division of State History, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts. Stories of the ordinary people who helped build Salt Lake City emerge from a study of their often humble adobe houses. Rather than focusing on men and women in positions of power and influence, the emphasis here is on the lives of people who built their sturdy, simple homes from mud. A Modest Homestead provides architectural descriptions of ninety-four extant adobe houses. These homes are for the most part unremarkable, except for their perhaps unexpected construction material. They are as basic as the people who built them--small tradesmen and farmers, laborers and domestics. Author Laurie Bryant discusses the neighborhoods in Salt Lake City where adobe houses have survived, often much renovated and disguised, and she showcases the houses not just as they appear today but as they were originally built. Almost all the houses now have additions and improvements, and without some dissection, they are not always recognizable. They now appear both comfortable and pleasant, which was not always the case in the nineteenth century. What emerges through closer examination and Bryant's research is a fuller picture of the roughhewn life of many early Utahns.

Modest Homes
Modest Homes

Author: Baden Bros. Inc.

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781546555605

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This is a reproduction of a classic home designs from the first half of the 20th century. It contains both exterior images and interior floor plans for various types of homes. As the book description reads: "A collection of well-designed attractive and livable houses, within the price range of the average American family."

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 1074

ISBN-13:

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Modest Hopes
Modest Hopes

Author: Don Loucks

Publisher: Dundurn Press

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781459745544

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Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Too often, workers’ cottages are characterized today as being small, cramped, poorly built, and disposable. But in the late 1800s, to have worked and saved enough money to move into one was an incredible achievement. Moving from the crowded conditions of boarding houses, or areas such as Toronto’s Ward or Ashport’s “shanty-town,” just east of the city, to a self-contained, six-hundred-square-foot row house was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future, a belief in it, and a commitment to what lay ahead. For the workers and their families, these houses were far from modest. The architectural details of these cottages suggested status, value, and pride of place; they reminded the workers of where they had come from, with architectural roots from their homeland. These “modest hopes” are an undervalued heritage resource and an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative about the people who lived in them and built our city.