Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England“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. |
Contents
The Buildings | 32 |
The Buildings and the Land | 70 |
Permanence and Change | 86 |
Pattern in Building and Farming | 113 |
Tobias Walker Moves His Shed | 161 |
Why Tobias Walker Moved His Shed | 179 |
Bibliography 213 Glossary | 221 |
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