Field guide to New England barns and farm buildings / Thomas Durant Visser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Visser, Thomas Durant.

Series:

Library of New England

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barns--New England.

Barns.

Vernacular architecture--New England.

Vernacular architecture.

Historic buildings--New England.

Historic buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Field guide to New England barns & farm buildings

Place of Publication:

Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Preface to Ebook Edition; Preface; 1 | Discovering the History of Farm Buildings; Design Traditions, Fashions, and Innovations; Timber Frames; Hand-Hewn Timbers; Scribe Rule and Square Rule; Balloon Frames; Nails; Saw Marks; Wall Sheathings; Barn Doors; Windows; Foundations and Basements; Cupolas and Ventilators; Barns Model; Diversification and Specialization; 2 | Barns; English Barns; Acadian Barns; Extended English Barns; Side-Hill English Barns; Field Barns and Hay Barns; Reconfigured English Barns; Gable-Front Barns; Gable-Front Bank Barns; High-Drive Bank Barns

Monitor-Roofed Barns Covered High-Drive Dairy Barns; Round and Polygonal Dairy Barns; Late-Nineteenth-Century Eaves-Front Bank Barns; Madawaska Twin Barns; Ground-Level Stable Barns; Late-Twentieth-Century Dairy Barns; 3 | Outbuildings; Connected Barns; Milk Rooms, Dairy Rooms, and Butteries; Creameries or Dairies; Icehouses; Milk Houses; Springhouses and Well Houses; Windmills; Outhouses and Privies; Woodsheds and Wood Houses; 4 | Buildings for Feed Storage; Granaries; Corn Cribs; Interior Silos; Square Wooden Silos; Polygonal Wooden Silos; Stacked-Wood Silos; Wooden Stave Silos

Concrete Silos; Tile Silos; Steel Silos; 5 | Other Farm Buildings; Horse Stables and Carriage Barns; Wagon Sheds; Piggeries; Slaughterhouses; Smokehouses and Ash Houses; Sheep Barns; Henhouses; Colony Houses; Brooder Houses; Converted Poultry Barns; Multistory Poultry Barns; 6 | Farm Buildings for Specialty Crops; Maple Sugar Houses; Greenhouses; Hop Houses; Potato Houses; Tobacco Barns; Cranberry Screenhouses and Outbuildings; Blueberry Farm Buildings; Apple Farm Buildings; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205) and index.

ISBN:

9781283847759

1283847752

9781611680652

1611680654

9780585230924

0585230927

OCLC:

823283353