num_pages: 240
description: "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.
language: English
title: Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England
titlecomplete: Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England
genres: Heritage Preservation, Nonfiction, Architecture, History
ratings_count: 46
publisher: University Press of New England