Ethnic History and Beauty of Old Barns
Author : Jerold W. Apps
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Barns
ISBN :
Author : Jerold W. Apps
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Barns
ISBN :
Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2013-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0870205196
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 : Peggy Lee Beedle
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Barns
ISBN :
Author : Michael Dregni
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2003-12-14
Category : Barns
ISBN :
Endearing memories become more vivid as you page through This Old Barn, a wonderful, heartwarming anthology of stories and artwork--from such favorites as Patricia Penton Leimbach, Justin Isherwood, Grant Wood, Eric Sloane, and others--that celebrates the glorious barns of yesteryear. Whether you grew up on a farm, or wished you did, you’ll cherish This Old Barn, which will bring you back to simpler days.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Historic buildings
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Author : Allen G. Noble
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
From hay barns to corn cribs, from fences to chicken coops, from silos to outhouses, 'The Old Barn Book's' clear drawings, photos, maps, and descriptions make it easy to figure what's what around a farm.
Author : Pioneer America Society
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Includes papers presented at the annual meetings of the Society.
Author : James B. Garrison
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0847847497
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 : Evelyn Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Barns
ISBN :