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Kentucky folk architecture / William Lynwood Montell and Michael Lynn Morse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montell, William Lynwood, 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vernacular architecture--Kentucky.
- Vernacular architecture.
- Kentucky.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 104 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1995]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Scattered across the Kentucky landscape are hundreds of folk structures - log cabins, cribs, barns - that carry on traditions preserved in wood construction and in memory rather than on paper. Like folk songs, tales, and regional dialects, material culture reveals the ways colonial and Old World legacies have survived and traveled across regions. As William Lynwood Montell and Michael Lynn Morse assert, folk architecture offers the best examples of such expression since houses, barns, and other outbuildings served settlers' most pressing needs.
- Contents:
- 1. Folklife Research and the Culture Landscape
- 2. Folk Houses
- 3. Construction Aspects
- 4. Barns and Cribs.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1976. With new preface.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-104).
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9780813148397
- 0813148391
- Publisher Number:
- 99989317747
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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