Barns of the Midwest / edited by Allen G. Noble and Hubert G.H. Wilhelm.

Title & Author:

Barns of the Midwest / edited by Allen G. Noble and Hubert G.H. Wilhelm.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Farm Barns of the American Midwest / Allen G. Noble and Hubert G.H. Wilhelm -- 2. Early Log-Crib Barn Survivals / Warren E. Roberts -- 3. The Three-Bay Threshing Barn / Charles Calkins and Martin Perkins -- 4. Midwestern Barns and Their Germanic Connections / Hubert G.H. Wilhelm -- 5. Affordable Barns for the Midwest: Beginnings / Lowell J. Soike -- 6. Dairying and Dairy Barns in the Northern Midwest / Ingolf Vogeler -- 7. Tobacco Barns and Sheds / Karl Raitz -- 8. Within the Reach of All: Midwest Barns Perfected / Lowell J. Soike -- 9. Corncribs to Grain Elevators: Extensions of the Barn / Keith E. Roe -- 10. Barns of Nonorthogonal Plan / Keith A. Sculle and H. Wayne Price -- 11. The Modern Midwest Barn: 1900-Present / Glenn A. Harper and Steve Gordon -- 12. Midwest Barn Decor / David T. Stephens -- 13. Preserving the Midwestern Barn / Hemalata C. Dandekar and Eric Allen MacDonald -- 14. In Praise of "Euerlastynge Barnes" / Jack Matthews.
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Summary:

"These are not barns of calendar art or sofa-size paintings, but the real, if increasingly scarce buildings of wood, hay, and animals. It will be scholarship of this value that helps preserve some of the remaining barns for our continued edification". -- Ohioana Quarterly.

ISBN:

0821411152 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780821411155 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0821411160 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780821411162 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Barns Middle West History.
Vernacular architecture Middle West.
Granges Midwest (États-Unis) Histoire.
Architecture vernaculaire Midwest (États-Unis)
Barns.
Vernacular architecture.
Middle West.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Noble, Allen G., 1930-2021.
Willhelm, Hubert G. H.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121257
Call No.: ID NA8230.B27; ID:95-B2253
Status: Available

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