Shaker "great barns" 1820s-1880s
Subtitle: evolution of shaker dairy barn design and its relation to the agricultural press
By: Lauren A. Stiles
Series: Shaker studies -- no. 5
Publisher: Richard W. Couper Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Clinton, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781937370077
Subjects: Dairy barns; Design and construction; History; Farm buildings; Shaker architecture; Agricultural journalism; Agricultural literature; Shakers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Plan of a barn owned by the Shakers" : a Harvard barn (1831), an example of Shaker design options; title: "Best barn in the state" : the barn at Alfred (1833), an alternate design; title: "Much ingenuity and convenience" : the Hancock round stone barn (1826), a design not repeated; title: "No. 1 barns" : barn building at Enfield and Canterbury, New Hampshire (1853-1859); title: "No library in the pig pen" : Shaker visits to rich men's barns; title: "Scientific agriculture, scientific religion" : Elder Frederick Evans and the Mount Lebanon North Family stone barn (1859-1860); title: "Flat" roofs and the Shakers : an architectural experiment that did not work; title: "The awfullest calamity" : arson and the rebuilding of the Watervliet, New York, barns (1872-1873); title: "If every out-farm were sold" : building barns at Windsor, New York (1883, 1885); title: The popularization (limited!) of four-level barns : "world's people" build extra-tall barns beginning in the 1880s; title: "We regret to add" : were Shakers "good farmers?", contemporary opinion.