Families and farmhouses in nineteenth-century America : vernacular design and social change / Sally McMurry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMurry, Sally Ann, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farmhouses--United States.

Farmhouses.

Vernacular architecture--United States.

Vernacular architecture.

Architecture--United States--History--19th century.

Architecture.

Architecture and society--United States.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A look at the changing design of 19th-century American farmhouses, collected from a wide range of agricultural periodicals of the time.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ONE: Introduction; TWO: The Progressive Agriculturist's Vernacular; THREE: The Shape of Cooperation: The Farmstead as Workplace, 1830-1855; FOUR: The Spheres Diverge: Work on the Progressive Farmstead, 1855-1885; FIVE: City Parlor, Country Sitting Room; SIX: Supervision to Self-Culture: Children's Spaces on the Progressive Farmstead; SEVEN: From Production to Consumption: Progressive Farmhouse Design at the Turn of the Century; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; PICTURE SOURCES AND CREDITS; INDEX

Notes:

Based on author's thesis--Cornell University.

Includes bibliography: p. 225-250 and index.

ISBN:

1-280-52335-2

0-19-536451-1

OCLC:

239885530