Shaping communities / edited by Carter L. Hudgins and Elizabeth Collins Cromley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudgins, Carter L., editor.

Cromley, Elizabeth C., editor.

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Series:

Perspectives in vernacular architecture (Knoxville, Tenn.) ; 6.

Perspectives in vernacular architecture ; 6.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernacular architecture--United States.

Vernacular architecture.

United States.

Architecture and society--United States.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

xviii, 280 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1997]

Summary:

This volume brings together nineteen essays from an array of academic disciplines - American studies, folk lore, history, architectural history, and architecture - which are currently contributing to the study of vernacular structures and places. Addressing places as distant from each other as rural Massachusetts and Hawai'i and building types as disparate as Native American houses in Alaska and vacation cottages in Florida, the contributors are unified in their concern with community building and place making. As the editors note, scholarship on vernacular forms once focused rather narrowly on individual buildings and building types - an emphasis that has since given way to broader explorations. Accordingly, these essays reflect the ever-growing interest of vernacular architecture studies in the role building plays in defining communities, how building shapes the discourse between individuals and the society and culture of which they are a part, and how building conveys a community's sense of itself.

Contents:

Preface / Carter L. Hudgins, Elizabeth Collins Cromley

Acknowledgements

Communities shaped by ideals. Remnants of a failed utopia : reconstructing Runnymede's agricultural landscape / Alan Michelson, Katherine Solomonson

Homesteads and bungalows : African-American architecture in Langston, Oklahoma / M. Jeff Hardwick

New England farmhouses in the Early Republic : rhetoric and reality / Nora Pat Small

Building status : pavilioned dwellings in Virginia / Marlene Elizabeth Heck

"The peculiar characteristic of Christian communities" : the county almshouses of the Delaware Valley, 1790-1860 / Monique Bourque

Community landscapes. From common land to public space : the frog pond and mall at Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1765-1825 / Martha J. McNamara

Monument avenue : the Architecture of Consensus in the New South, 1890-1930 / Kathy Edwards, Esmé Howard

Seaside, Florida : "The new town

the old ways" / Kathleen LaFrank

"Alarmed by the cry of fire" : how fire changed Fredericksburg, Virginia / Gary Stanton

Communities shaped by race and ethnicity. Cultural accommodations in the late-eighteenth-century architecture of Marbletown, New York / Thomas R. Ryan

"Without recourse to owners" : the architecture of urban slavery in the Antebellum South / John Michael Vlach

Anglo-Hawaiian building in early-nineteenth-century Hawai'i / Laurel Spencer Forsythe

Totem poles and plank houses : reconstructing native culture in Southeast Alaska / Alison K. Hoagland

Communities shaped by commerce. The structure of civic exchange : market houses in early Virginia / Bryan Clark Green

Commercial blocks and female colleges : the small-town business of educating ladies / Lisa Tolbert

The commercial photographic parlor, 1839-1889 / Shirley Teresa Wajda

Jud Yoho, "the Bungalow Craftsman," and the development of Seattle suburbs / Janet Ore

The mixed blessings of success : the Hecht Company and department store branch development after World War II / Richard Longstreth

Select bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [264]-270) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.

ISBN:

0870499513

OCLC:

36626396