Big house, little house, back house, barn : the connected farm buildings of New England / Thomas C. Hubka.

Main entry:

Hubka, Thomas C., 1946- author.

Title & Author:

Big house, little house, back house, barn : the connected farm buildings of New England / Thomas C. Hubka.

Publication:

Hanover [NH.] : University Press of New England, 1984.

Description:

xiii, 225 pages : illustrations , plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
I. Connected Farm Buildings. Appearance and Actuality -- II. Pattern in Connected Farm Buildings. The Buildings -- The Buildings and the Land -- Permanence and Change -- Pattern in Building and Farming -- III. Reasons for Making Connected Farm Buildings. Tobias Walked Moves His Shed -- Why Tobias Walker Moved His Shed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.

Summary:

"This book, about the buildings farmers made, traces the historical development of connected farm buildings, as architectural form common in rural New England. This is primarily a book of detailed architectural analysis, but it is also a cultural study. Buildings are seen as an expression of their culture and can be interpreted to reveal insights about the people who made them and the reasons they made them. There are three parts: Part I provides an overview of connected farm buildings; Part II, the main body of the text, analyzes connected farms according to patterns of construction, usage, and change over time; and Part III explains why connected farms were built. This three-part organization follows an architectural logic in which building analysis precedes the explanation of historical development."--Preface, page ix.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0874513103
9780874513103
0874513561
9780874513561

Subject:

Farm buildings New England History.
Farm buildings New England.
Constructions rurales Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Buildings.
Farm buildings.
Bauernhaus
Geschichte (1800-1900)
New England Buildings, structures, etc.
Nouvelle-Angleterre Constructions.
New England.
Neuengland
New England Farmhouses Architectural features, ca 1800-1980

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 63388
Call No.: ID:85-B826
Status: Available

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