Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England - Hardcover

Hubka, Thomas C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874513103 ISBN 13: 9780874513103

Publisher: University Press of New England, 1984

Synopsis

"Big house, little house, back house, barn"--this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of them lived. The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America.

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Review:

"No matter where you live, you will want this book as a model of vernacular architecture scholarship."--Vernacular Architecture Newsletter "An unexpected small masterpiece...that has some of the suspense of a detective story and, at times, the poignance of deeply felt, sympathetic social history."--Robert Campbell, Boston Globe "An important pioneering effort. The book commemorates both an unique indigenous architectural expression and a way of life that has become extinct . . . The style is economic and clear and Hubka's affection for architecture binds the buildings to their people and their times."--Maine Sunday Times

About the Author:

Thomas C. Hubka currently teaches in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has also written about American vernacular buildings and architectural design method. His most recent book is Resplendent - Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community (UPNE, 2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0874513103
• ISBN 13: 9780874513103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240