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Shaker "great barns" 1820s-1880s : evolution of shaker dairy barn design and its relation to the agricultural press / Lauren A. Stiles.

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Shaker "great barns" 1820s-1880s : evolution of shaker dairy barn design and its relation to the agricultural press / Lauren A. Stiles.
Author
Stiles, Lauren A.
Publication
Clinton, N.Y. : Richard W. Couper Press, 2013.

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188 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Shaker studies ; no. 5
Uniform Title
Shaker studies ; no. 5.
Subject
  • Shakers > United States > History > 19th century
  • Dairy barns > History > 19th century
  • Farm buildings > History > 19th century
  • Shaker architecture > History > 19th century
  • Agricultural journalism > United States > History > 19th century
  • Agricultural literature > United States > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-181) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
"Plan of a barn owned by the Shakers" : a Harvard barn (1831), an example of Shaker design options -- "Best barn in the state" : the barn at Alfred (1833), an alternate design -- "Much ingenuity and convenience" : the Hancock round stone barn (1826), a design not repeated -- "No. 1 barns" : barn building at Enfield and Canterbury, New Hampshire (1853-1859) -- "No library in the pig pen" : Shaker visits to rich men's barns -- "Scientific agriculture, scientific religion" : Elder Frederick Evans and the Mount Lebanon North Family stone barn (1859-1860) -- "Flat" roofs and the Shakers : an architectural experiment that did not work -- "The awfullest calamity" : arson and the rebuilding of the Watervliet, New York, barns (1872-1873) -- "If every out-farm were sold" : building barns at Windsor, New York (1883, 1885) -- The popularization (limited!) of four-level barns : "world's people" build extra-tall barns beginning in the 1880s -- "We regret to add" : were Shakers "good farmers?", contemporary opinion.
ISBN
  • 1937370070
  • 9781937370077
OCLC
  • 860397029
  • SCSB-10596838
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library