Overview

"""Big house, little house, back house, barn""-this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of them lived. The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America."

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9781584653721

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An unexpected small masterpiece...that has some of the suspense of a detective story and, at times, the poignance of deeply felt, sympathetic social history. - Robert Campbell, Boston Globe; An important pioneering effort, The book commemorates both an unique indigenous architectural expression and a way of life that has become extinct... The style is economic and clear and Hubka's affection for architecture binds the buildings to their people and their times. - Maine Sunday Times

"""An unexpected small masterpiece...that has some of the suspense of a detective story and, at times, the poignance of deeply felt, sympathetic social history."" - Robert Campbell, Boston Globe; ""An important pioneering effort, The book commemorates both an unique indigenous architectural expression and a way of life that has become extinct... The style is economic and clear and Hubka's affection for architecture binds the buildings to their people and their times."" - Maine Sunday Times"""

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Thomas C. Hubka currently teaches in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has also written about American vernacular buildings and architectural design method. His most recent book is Resplendent - Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community (UPNE, 2003).

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