Constructing Image, Identity, and Place

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

• ISBN13: 9781572332195
• ISBN10: 1572332190
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr

Summary

Although vernacular architecture scholarship has expanded beyond its core fascination with common buildings and places, its attention remains fixed on the social function of building. Consistent with this expansion of interests, Constructing Image, Identity, and Place includes essays on a wide variety of American building types and landscapes drawn from a broad geographic and chronological spectrum. Subjects range from examinations of the houses, hotels and churches of America's colonial and Republican elite to analyses of the humble cottages of Southern sharecroppers and mill workers, Mississippi juke joints, and the ephemeral rustic arbors and bowers erected by Civil War soldiers. Other contributors examine or reexamine the form of early synagogues in Georgia, colonial construction technologies in the Chesapeake, the appropriation and use of storefront windows by San Francisco suffragists, and the evolution of the modern factory tour. Other decidedly twentieth-century topics include the impact of the automobile on American building forms and landscapes, including parkways, drive-in movie theaters, and shopping malls. Drawn from the Vernacular Architecture Forum conferences of 1998 and 1999, these seventeen essays represent the broad range of topics and methodologies current in the field today. The volume will introduce newcomers to the breadth and depth of vernacular architecture while also bringing established scholars up to date on the field's continued growth and maturation. The Editors: Alison K. Hoagland is associate professor of history and historic preservation at Michigan Technological University. Kenneth A. Breisch is director of Programs in Historic Preservation at the University of Southern California. He is author of Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America. The Contributors: Shannon Bell, Robert W. Blythe, Timothy Davis, Stephanie Dyer, Willie Graham, Kathleen LaFrank, William Littmann, Carl Lounsbury, Al Luckenbach, Sherri M. Marsh, Maurie McInnis, Steven H. Moffson, Jason D. Moser, Jennifer Nardone, Martin C. Perdue, Mark Reinberger, Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Jessica Sewell, Donna Ware, and Camille Wells.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Alison K. Hoagland
Kenneth A. Breisch
Part I. Image
Dower Play/Power Play: Menokin and the Ordeal of Elite House Building in Colonial Virginia	3	(19)
Camille Wells
Anglican Church Design in the Chesapeake: English Inheritances and Regional Interpretations	22	(17)
Carl Lounsbury
Conflating Past and Present in the Reconstruction of Charleston's St. Philip's Church	39	(15)
Maurie D. Mclnnis
A Public House for a New Republic: The Architecture of Accommodation and the American State, 1789--1809	54	(17)
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
The Production of Goodwill: The Origins and Development of the Factory Tour in America	71	(14)
William Littmann
Sidewalks and Store Windows as Political Landscapes	85	(16)
Jessica Sewell
Part II. Identity
Hiding Behind Trees and Building Shelter Without Walls: Stick and Foliate Structures in the Civil War Landscape	101	(15)
Martin C. Perdue
The Architecture of Sharecropping: Extended Farms of the Georgia Piedmont	116	(19)
Mark Reinberger
Unraveling the Threads of Community Life: Work, Play, and Place in the Alabama Mill Villages of the West Point Manufacturing Company	135	(16)
Robert W. Blythe
Identity and Assimilation in Synagogue Architecture in Georgia, 1870--1920	151	(15)
Steven H. Moffson
Roomful of Blues: Jukejoints and the Cultural Landscape of the Mississippi Delta	166	(13)
Jennifer Nardone
Part III. Place
Preindustrial Framing in the Chesapeake	179	(18)
Willie Graham
Impermanent Architecture in a Less Permanent Town: The Mid-Seventeenth-Century Architecture of Providence, Maryland	197	(18)
Jason D. Moser
Al Luckenbach
Sherri M. Marsh
Donna Ware
From Ticket Booth to Screen Tower: An Architectural Study of Drive-in Theaters in the Baltimore--Washington, D.C.--Richmond Corridor	215	(13)
Shannon Bell
``A Pleasant Illusion of Unspoiled Countryside'': The American Parkway and the Problematics of an Institutionalized Vernacular	228	(19)
Timothy Davis
Real and Ideal Landscapes along the Taconic State Parkway	247	(16)
Kathleen LaFrank
Designing ``Community'' in the Cherry Hill Mall: The Social Production of a Consumer Space	263	(14)
Stephanie Dyer
Select Bibliography	277	(4)
Contributors	281	(4)
Index	285