Folk Architecture in Little Dixie: A Regional Culture in Missouri"This study is about material culture and settlement history in a very interesting place and time. Its focus is on the people and the understated voice of their architecture of tradition. ... this is a book about how folk artifacts help define and illustrate settlement history and cultural regions"--Excerpt from preface, page vii. |
Contents
The Notion of Folk Architecture | 17 |
The Houses | 30 |
Old Barns of Little Dixie | 72 |
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agricultural American artifacts Audrain County barn type basic Bluegrass Boone County brick builders built Callaway County central Missouri central-hall house Charles van Ravenswaay chimney corncrib Creek crib Democratic Dixie's documented dogtrot house double-crib barn double-pen house dwelling early English English barns farm farmers farmhouses Figure floorplans Folklife frame gable Geographers granaries half-dovetailed Half-Timber Construction half-timbering hall-and-parlor house Hallsville hallway Henry Glassie hewn house types Housing in Middle Howard County James John Kentucky kitchen land landscape Little Dixie loft log building log cabins log construction log houses log single-pen house Louis material culture Material Folk Culture Middle Virginia Missouri River Moberly Monroe County nineteenth century Pattern Pennsylvania Pioneer America Ralls counties Randolph County Ravenswaay rear roof rooms rural saddlebag house settlers shed addition single-crib barns slaves smokehouse South southern square-notched stack house subtype traditional transverse-crib barn University of Missouri University Press V-notched log Vernacular Architecture weatherboarding York