The Pennsylvania Barn
Subtitle: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America (Creating the North American Landscape)
Edition: second edition edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 26, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801871344
Subjects: Regional geography; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Pennsylvania; Earth Sciences - Geography; Architecture; USA; United States - General; Domestic; Landscape; Art / General; Barns; History
First sentence: In the early eighteenth century, a two-level barn appeared in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Description: "Robert F. Ensminger provided the first comprehensive study of a piece of American vernacular architecture - the forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania German barn. Now, in this revised edition, Ensminger gives us the results of his continued diligent fieldwork and archival research into the origins, evolution, and distribution in North America of this significant agricultural structure. Including an entire chapter of new material, 85 new illustrations, and updates to previous chapters, this edition of Ensminger's classic work will appeal to students and scholars in cultural and historical geography, folklore and vernacular architectural history, and American studies, as well as to general readers."--Jacket.