Top > Arts > Architecture > History > Vernacular > North America > United States

  See also:

• Regional: North America: United States: Arts and Entertainment: Architecture  (68)

» 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.

» 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.

» Dutch Barn Preservation Society - A not-for-profit educational organization for the study and preservation of New World Dutch barns. Prints a newsletter twice a year with the latest findings on Dutch barns.

» 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.

» Hancock Shaker Village - An outdoor history museum of Shaker life in western Massachusetts. Twenty original buildings and historic working farm are used to interpret the life of America's most successful communitarian society.

» Henry Whitfield State Museum - Begun in 1639, The Henry Whitfield House, in Guilford, Connecticut, is the oldest remaining house in Connecticut.

» 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.

» Historic Fort Klock Restoration - A restored fortified homestead in the Mohawk Valley and site of a moved, restored Dutch barn.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» Taos Pueblo, New Mexico - This well-preserved group of adobe houses is thought to date from before 1400. A photograph and description of this World Heritage site from the US National Park Service.

» 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.

» The Vernacular Architecture of Hamilton, New York - An illustrated description by Colgate College Professor of Art and Art History, Eric Van Schaack.

» Vernacular House Forms in 17th-Century Plymouth Colony - An analysis of evidence from room-by-room probate inventories 1633-1685.

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

The content of this directory is based on the Open Directory and may have been modified by clixShare