Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III

Book

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III

Entry/Object ID

2013.002.117

Description

Presents the results of architectural research, field work, and analysis presented by members of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Contents: Yuppies, Bubbas, and the Politics of Culture / by Catherine W. Bishir -- Rethinking Geographical Approaches to the Common House: The Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts / by Michael Steinitz -- House Trailers: Innovation and Accommodation in Vernacular Housing / by Allan D. Wallis -- the Half-House: Influences in the Creation of a New Form / by Charles E. Martin -- "A New Standard for Living": The Lustron House, 1946-1950 / by tom Wolfe and Leonard Garfield -- Housing the Horseless Carriage: America's Early Private Garages / by Leslie G. Goat -- Building in Clay on the Central Plains / by David Murphy -- Skeleton of Settlement: Ukrainian Folk Building in Western North Dakota / by Christopher Martin -- The Brick-Cased Log Houses of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by Nancy Van Dolsen -- Cheap, Quick, and Easy: The Early History of Rockfaced Concrete Block Building / by Pamela H. Simpson -- All Roads Lead to Winnemucca: Local Road Systems and Community Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Nevada / by Margaret Purser -- Tradition and Transformation: Rural Society and Architectural Change in Nineteenth-Century Central Massachusetts / by Myron Stachiw and Nora Pat Small -- Building for Downtown Living: The Residential Architecture of San Francisco's Tenderloin / by Mark R. Wenger -- Substance, Style, and Community: Selected Farmhouses from Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota / by Fred W. Peterson -- Yard Shrines and Sidewalk Altars of New York's Italian-Americans / by Joseph Sciorra -- False-Front Architecture on Montana's Urban Frontier / by Kingston Wm. Heath -- the Structure of Justice: The Courthouses of Colonial Virginia / by Carl Lounsbury vii, 255 p. : ill., plans ; 26 cm. (softcover)

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2013.002.

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2013)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Vernacular architecture--United States

Book Details

Author

Carter, Thomas, 1949-, Herman, Bernard L., 1951- Vernacular Architecture Forum (U.S.)

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Place Published

Location

Columbia, MO

Date Published

circa 1989

Call No.

NA705 .P477 v. 3

ISBN

082620659x

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: Edited by Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Create Date

July 1, 2013

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023