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Vernacular Architecture in Rural and Small Town Missouri: An Introduction
Abstract of a book by Howard Wight Marshall, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Information for ordering.
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/miscpubs/mp0688.htm
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Vernacular House Forms in 17th-Century Plymouth Colony
An analysis of evidence from room-by-room probate inventories 1633-1685.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jfd3a/Plymouth/folkhouse.htm
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Huguenot Street Historic District, New Paltz, NY
A virtual visit to the oldest continuously inhabited street in America with its original houses, from Hudson Valley Network.
http://www.hvnet.com/museums/huguenotst/
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Grottos of the Midwest
Susan A. Niles of Lafayette College explains and illustrates this distinctive folk building tradition. These structures are built of concrete studded with glass, stone, ceramics, and sometimes whole objects.
http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~niless/awsthome.htm
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Back of the Big House: The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation
On-line version of an exhibition on slave life by George Washington University Professor John Michael Vlach. Photographs and descriptions of slave cabins.
http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse
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Jualpa Mine Camp Rehabilitation Project -- Historic Structures Report
Structural analysis and rehabilitation of buildings in the Gold Creek area, Alaska, that grew out of a gold rush in the 1880s. Hosted by Juneau Public Library.
http://www.juneau.lib.ak.us/history/Jualpa_Mine/struct.htm
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Historic Architecture of Blacksburg, Virginia
On-line version of a slide show by Gibson Worsham. A text version is available for downloading. Hosted by Special Collections of the University Libraries, Virginia Tech.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/bicent/slides/ssintro.htm
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Death of a Dream
Explores the rise and fall of Midwestern farmhouses, and the literature they inspired. Also examines the cost of advances in agriculture. From PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses/
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Survey of Columbus, New Mexico
Survey by New Mexico State University of the historic buildings of Columbus for the National Park Service. Photographs and history.
http://web.nmsu.edu/~publhist/columbus.htm
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Henry Whitfield State Museum
Begun in 1639, The Henry Whitfield House, in Guilford, Connecticut, is the oldest remaining house in Connecticut.
http://www.whitfieldmuseum.org
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