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- Back of the Big House: The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation - On-line version of an exhibition on slave life by George Washington University Professor John Michael Vlach. Photographs and descriptions of slave cabins.
www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse
- Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon - Description from the Indiana Humanities Council of a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition exploring the architecture and uses of the barn. Tour schedule in Indiana 2001-2.
www.ihc4u.org/barn.htm
- Clinton Campbell's/Thomas Maskell Store, Greenwich, N.J. - Cumberland County Government provides a photograph and brief history of this clapboard and shingle 1796-1803 store with later additions.
www.co.cumberland.nj.us/facts/history/register/greenwich/clinton_campbells_store.html
- Coffee Shacks of Anchorage, Alaska - A visual catalog of the semi-permanent espresso shacks that help keep Alaskans buzzing, photographed by Brian T. Meacham. Expandable thumbnail photographs.
meachams.com/brian/photo/coffee/index.html
- Death of a Dream - Explores the rise and fall of Midwestern farmhouses, and the literature they inspired. Also examines the cost of advances in agriculture. From PBS.
www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses
- Dog Trots, Saddlebags and Shotguns - An illustrated article from Florida Heritage Magazine on Florida's vernacular architecture. Plans and photographs of log-cabins and cottages, bibliography.
flheritage.com/magazine/spring96/samp_art.html
- Dutch Barn Preservation Society - A not-for-profit educational organization for the study and preservation of New World Dutch barns. Prints a newsletter twice a year with the latest findings on Dutch barns.
www.dutchbarns.homestead.com/home.html
- Grottos of the Midwest - Susan A. Niles of Lafayette College explains and illustrates this distinctive folk building tradition. These structures are built of concrete studded with glass, stone, ceramics, and sometimes whole objects.
ww2.lafayette.edu/~niless/awsthome.htm
- Hancock Shaker Village - An outdoor history museum of Shaker life in western Massachusetts. Twenty original buildings and historic working farm are used to interpret the life of America's most successful communitarian society.
www.hancockshakervillage.org/old/about.html
- Historic Architecture of Blacksburg, Virginia - On-line version of a slide show by Gibson Worsham. A text version is available for downloading. Hosted by Special Collections of the University Libraries, Virginia Tech.
spec.lib.vt.edu/bicent/slides/ssintro.htm
- Historic Fort Klock Restoration - A restored fortified homestead in the Mohawk Valley and site of a moved, restored Dutch barn.
www.fortklock.com
- Huguenot Street Historic District, New Paltz, NY - A virtual visit to the oldest continuously inhabited street in America with its original houses, from Hudson Valley Network.
www.hvnet.com/museums/huguenotst
- Jualpa Mine Camp Rehabilitation Project -- Historic Structures Report - Structural analysis and rehabilitation of buildings in the Gold Creek area, Alaska, that grew out of a gold rush in the 1880s. Hosted by Juneau Public Library.
www.juneau.lib.ak.us/history/Jualpa_Mine/struct.htm
- Magnolia Mound Plantation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana - A rare example of the architectural influences of early settlers from France and the West Indies. One of Louisiana's oldest wooden structures, of bousillage construction.
asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~anderson/magnolia/mmp.html
- Morgan Log House, Towamencin, PA - Brief history, description and visitor information on the 17th-century log house, home of Daniel Boone's grandparents.
www.fieldtrip.com/pa/53682480.htm
- New World Dutch Barn Survey 2000 - Private survey of Dutch barns in the Mohawk and Schoharie Valleys. Mission statement, photographs and field journal, plus links to Dutch barn and vernacular architecture sites.
nwdb2000.homestead.com/home.html
- Sod Houses and Dugouts - Illustrated essays on pioneer techniques of building houses from turf or hollowed out of rock, from Websteader SodHouses.
websteader.com/wbstdsd1.htm
- Survey of Columbus, New Mexico - Survey by New Mexico State University of the historic buildings of Columbus for the National Park Service. Photographs and history.
web.nmsu.edu/~publhist/columbus.html
- Taos Pueblo, New Mexico - This well-preserved group of adobe houses is thought to date from before 1400. A photograph and description of this World Heritage site from the US National Park Service.
www.cr.nps.gov/worldheritage/taos.htm
- The German (Rhineland - Platinate) Farm - History of German farms in the US, particularly a farm from the village of Hordt in the Rhineland-Palatinate (late 1600s), now in the Frontier Culture Museum, Virginia.
www.frontiermuseum.org/german.htm
- The Vernacular Architecture of Hamilton, New York - An illustrated description by Colgate College Professor of Art and Art History, Eric Van Schaack.
www.colgate.edu/scene/sept1997/architecture.html
- Vernacular Architecture in Rural and Small Town Missouri: An Introduction - Abstract of a book by Howard Wight Marshall, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Information for ordering.
muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/miscpubs/mp0688.htm
- Vernacular Architecture of the Ellett Valley, Virginia - Study by the Department of Landscape Architecture at Virginia Tech. Photographs and commentary.
www.lar.arch.vt.edu/Resources/courses/LAR-4144/Ellett_Valley/intro_ellett.html
- Vernacular House Forms in 17th-Century Plymouth Colony - An analysis of evidence from room-by-room probate inventories 1633-1685.
www.people.virginia.edu/~jfd3a/Plymouth/folkhouse.htm
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