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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
Vernacular House Forms in 17th-Century Plymouth Colony
An analysis of evidence from room-by-room probate inventories 1633-1685.
www.people.virginia.edu
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
French Emigre Architecture in Jefferson County, N.Y.
Claire Bonney provides photographs, descriptions and floor plans for ten 19th-century stone buildings in Jefferson County, and traces their roots to French emigration to northern New York State.
www.stonehouses.org
Begun in 1639, The Henry Whitfield House, in Guilford, Connecticut, is the oldest remaining house in Connecticut.
www.whitfieldmuseum.org
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.
threerivershms.com