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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.
  • Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon: Description from the Indiana Humanities Council of a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition exploring the architecture and uses of the barn. Tour schedule in Indiana 2001-2.
  • 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.
  • French Emigre Architecture in Jefferson County, N.Y.: Claire Bonney provides photographs, descriptions and floor plans for ten 19th-century stone buildings in Jefferson County, and traces their roots to French emigration to northern New York State.
  • 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.
  • The Vernacular Architecture of Hamilton, New York: An illustrated description by Colgate College Professor of Art and Art History, Eric Van Schaack.
  • 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.
  • Vernacular House Forms in 17th-Century Plymouth Colony: An analysis of evidence from room-by-room probate inventories 1633-1685.


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