Barns Of New York

Author : Cynthia G. Falk
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801464454

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Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State—from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Southern Tier to the North Country—providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York. Through descriptions of the appearance and working of representative historic farm buildings, Barns of New York also serves as an authoritative reference for historic preservation efforts across the state.Cynthia G. Falk connects agricultural buildings—both extant examples and those long gone—with the products and processes they made and make possible. Great attention is paid not only to main barns but also to agricultural outbuildings such as chicken coops, smokehouses, and windmills. Falk further emphasizes the types of buildings used to support the cultivation of products specifically associated with the Empire State, including hops, apples, cheese, and maple syrup.Enhanced by more than two hundred contemporary and historic photographs and other images, this book provides historical, cultural, and economic context for understanding the rural landscape. In an appendix are lists of historic farm buildings open to the public at living history museums and historic sites. Through a greater awareness of the buildings found on farms throughout New York, readers will come away with an increased appreciation for the state's rich agricultural and architectural legacy.

Author : Cynthia Falk
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801463983

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Barns of New York by Cynthia Falk Pdf

Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State-from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Southern Tier to the North Country-providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York. Through descriptions of the appearance and working of representative historic farm buildings, Barns of New York also serves as an authoritative reference for historic preservation efforts across the state. Cynthia G. Falk connects agricultural buildings-both extant examples and those long gone-with the products and processes they made and make possible. Great attention is paid not only to main barns but also to agricultural outbuildings such as chicken coops, smokehouses, and windmills. Falk further emphasizes the types of buildings used to support the cultivation of products specifically associated with the Empire State, including hops, apples, cheese, and maple syrup. Enhanced by more than two hundred contemporary and historic photographs and other images, this book provides historical, cultural, and economic context for understanding the rural landscape. In an appendix are lists of historic farm buildings open to the public at living history museums and historic sites. Through a greater awareness of the buildings found on farms throughout New York, readers will come away with an increased appreciation for the state's rich agricultural and architectural legacy.

Author : Richard Triumpho
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0815607962

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Round Barns of New York by Richard Triumpho Pdf

This book begins with an intriguing overview of the first five round barns built across America, including one in New York State. Elliott Stewart, who built the first octagon barn in the Empire State in 1874, is revealed to be a passionate original whose vigorous editorial campaign led to the construction of a dozen such barns. The author next introduces John McArthur who constructed a polygonal (sixteen-sided, double octagon) barn so huge it was the biggest in the state and second largest in the nation! Case histories document five other singular New York barns of varying configurations. Abundant photos make these bygone barns spring to life. Floor plans of the earliest barns show why the round shape engaged farmers at the turn of the century. The book also explains why true-round barns, born of silos, surpassed octagon barns in popularity. A special section on seven true-round barns in New York offers historical data and rare anecdotes by present owners.

Author : James B. Garrison
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780847847495

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At Home in The American Barn by James B. Garrison Pdf

At Home in the American Barn examines the fascinating possibilities for living and adaptive reuse provided by the expansive spaces and rough-hewn look of these traditional structures. Nationwide, Americans are turning to structures such as the barn with a mind to renovating them to fit the lifestyles of today, redesigning these often-wonderful places of the past into residential spaces. At Home in the American Barn embraces the dream to slow things down and return to basics and shares some success stories, as made plain by the buildings themselves.This richly illustrated volume focuses on the barn as home. Each of the structures featured has been adapted from its original utilitarian purpose to allow for comfortable, joyous living. Built at first as places for work, barns nevertheless often demonstrate fine craftsmanship and artistry. This volume emphasizes the rare beauty of these structures and shows throughout elegant solutions for living in these beautifully imagined homes. Soaring rafters here allow for dramatic chandeliers in one home or a wall of magnificent bookcases in another. Spaces that are unconventional in a traditional domestic sense here serve as springboards for inspiration that allow for, in one home, a spiral staircase of fantasy made from hand-planed wood, and, in another, a wall of glass that lets in the sun. At Home in The American Barn shows the way that this can be done successfully and artfully.

Author : Thomas Durant Visser
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781611680652

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Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings by Thomas Durant Visser Pdf

A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape

Author : Elric Endersby,Alexander Greenwood,David Larkin
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0789307944

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Barn by Elric Endersby,Alexander Greenwood,David Larkin Pdf

In the vernacular vocabulary of America, the barn stands proud, a hulking icon in the agricultural landscape. Unlike a house, the barn is chaste. For this is a place for work--a space rubbed by livestock and worn by labor. The repeating patterns of the posts and beams, now considered impediments to efficient farming, mask the very intricacy that gives old barns their intrinsic character. Many of these splendid spaces now lie empty, festooned with cobwebs, awaiting collapse, but there is a growing recognition that these honestly framed buildings can lend themselves to transformation and a new purpose. In the decade-plus time since BARN: The Art of a Working Building was published, there has been a remarkable growth in the different ways that barns can be preserved and reinvigorated. There are many great barns that may not survive, and many problems with others still standing that remain with their integrity intact, but action is being taken. BARN: Preservation & Adaptation chronicles and expands upon the progress being made, emphasizing the variety of imaginative uses that can revive these beloved structures. With more than 400 exciting photographs, drawings, and plans, and a lively text by the same team of expert barn restoration practitioners who brought you BARN: The Art of a Working Building, here are accounts of barns as retreats, studios, shops, meeting places, inns, restaurants, galleries, and museums--even sheltering swimming pools--showing the conversion to domestic use, and barns as barns again. The story, rich in historical detail, covers the problems of reinterpretation and barn culture informatively and critically, yet with great optimism and enthusiasm. The true companion to its highly successful predecessor, this book will delight all those who love and want to explore these grand monuments.

Author : Michael Auer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Barns
ISBN : UIUC:30112029032445

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The Preservation of Historic Barns by Michael Auer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020394261

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Preservation Briefs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan Corey Arnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747814276

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American Barns by Jan Corey Arnett Pdf

The heart of every working farm and ranch, the barn is an icon of rural America. This book chronicles – and celebrates – all the main types, and looks at how these treasures of early American architecture developed. It explains how a wealth of immigrant construction methods and range of environments and climates resulted in a fascinating variety of barn styles in the United States, from the earliest rare Dutch examples to simpler English types and others in more surprising shapes (round or even polygonal) crafted by the Shakers in the 1800s. It highlights the most notable, famous and historic barns that the reader can visit, and features the efforts of conservation groups to preserve America's barns and find innovative ways to repurpose these glorious old structures as homes and studios – and as living monuments of rural heritage.

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870205194

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Barns of Wisconsin (Revised Edition) by Jerry Apps Pdf

In this new edition of his classic book, award-winning author Jerry Apps shares a unique perspective on the great barns of rural Wisconsin. Digging deep as both an enthusiast and a farmer, Apps reaps a story of change: from the earliest pioneer structures to the low steel buildings of modern dairy farms, barns have adapted to meet the needs of each generation. They’ve housed wheat, tobacco, potatoes, and dairy cows, and they display the optimism, ingenuity, hard work, and practicality of the people who tend land and livestock. Featuring more than 100 stunning full-color photographs by Steve Apps, plus dozens of historic images, Barns of Wisconsin illuminates a vanishing way of life. The book explores myriad barn designs—from rectangular to round, from gable roof to gambrel, from fieldstone to wood—always with an eye to the history and craftsmanship of the Norwegians, Germans, Swiss, Finns, and others who built and used them. Barns of Wisconsin captures both the iconic and the unique, including historic and noteworthy barns, and discusses the disappearance of barns from our landscape and preservation efforts to save these important symbols of American agriculture.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Government publications
ISBN : CORNELL:31924093492639

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Lowell J. Soike,Iowa. Office of Historic Preservation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Barns
ISBN : MINN:31951000031518F

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Without Right Angles by Lowell J. Soike,Iowa. Office of Historic Preservation Pdf

Includes catalog of 160 round barns in Iowa.

Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584653728

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Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn by Thomas C. Hubka Pdf

The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.

Author : Marsha Williamson Mohr
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780253001696

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Indiana Barns by Marsha Williamson Mohr Pdf

Indiana is barn country. Beautiful, aged barns can be found tucked among bucolic fields from Valparaiso to Vincennes. Once a dominant feature of the Hoosier landscape, these evocative buildings are fast disappearing, giving way to more efficient, but less visually appealing, metal structures. Indiana Barns presents 138 of these charming rustics, drawn from the portfolio of photographer Marsha Williamson Mohr. Mohr has been photographing barns, covered bridges, and pastoral scenes for more than 20 years. Here, she showcases barns of all shapes and sizes, captured from every angle, during all four seasons, and in various states of repair and decay. Whether you have owned a barn or just admire the craftsmanship, this lively collection is sure to delight.

Author : Audrey T. Tepper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antietam National Battlefield (Md.)
ISBN : MINN:31951P00897218F

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The Mumma Barn by Audrey T. Tepper Pdf