Building Environments: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture

by Kenneth, Breisch A.; Hoagland, Alison K.

• ISBN13: 9781572334403
• ISBN10: 1572334401
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Kenneth A. Breisch
Alison K. Hoagland
PART I. REEXAMINING NEW ENGLAND HOUSES
Smaller Urban Houses of the North Shore, 1630--1830	3	(12)
Bernard L. Herman
Labor and Liberty in the Age of Refinement: Gender, Class, and the Built Environment	15	(19)
Marla R. Miller
The Double House in New England	34	(13)
Charles Parrott
Housing the Worker: The Anatomy of the New Bedford, Massachusetts, Three-Decker	47	(16)
Kingston Wm. Heath
PART II. BUILDINGS IN THEIR SOCIAL CONTEXTS
Anglican Church Building and Local Context in Early Jamaica	63	(18)
Louis P. Nelson
The Myth of Agricultural Complacency: Tobacco Barns of St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1790--1890	81	(16)
Kirk E. Ranzetta
In the Lodge of the Chickadee: Architecture and Cultural Resistance on the Crow Indian Reservation, 1884--1920	97	(16)
Thomas Carter
Edward Chappell
Timothy McCleary
``A Service Machine'': Hotel Guests and the Development of an Early-Twentieth-Century Building Type	113	(20)
Lisa Pfueller Davidson
PART III. METHODS FOR UNDERSTANDING BUILDINGS
The Architecture of New Netherland Revisited	133	(20)
Jeroen van den Hurk
Impermanent Architecture in the English Colonies of the Eastern Caribbean: New Contexts for Innovation in the Early Modern Atlantic World	153	(16)
Roger H. Leech
Rat Housing in Middle Virginia: The Diffusion of Everyday Life	169	(16)
Travis McDonald
Paint Discoveries in the Aiken-Rhett House Kitchen and Slave Quarters	185	(14)
Susan L. Buck
At the Edge of Custom: The Training and Early Architectural Career of Thomas R. Blackburn, Architect in Antebellum Virginia	199	(18)
Bryan Clark Green
PART IV. BEYOND BUILDINGS
Great Lakes Commercial Fishing Architecture: The Endurance and Transformation of a Region's Landscape/Waterscape	217	(16)
Michael J. Chiarappa
The Northern Umiak: Shelter, Boundary, Identity	233	(16)
Susan W. Fair
Reverence and Resistance in Lithuanian Wayside Shrines	249	(20)
Milda Baksys Richardson
Cereal Architecture: Late-Nineteenth-Century Grain Palaces and Crop Art	269	(14)
Pamela H. Simpson
Select Bibliography	283	(4)
Contributors	287	(4)
Index	291