Folk architecture in Little Dixie : a regional culture in Missouri / Howard Wight Marshall.

Main entry:

Marshall, Howard W.

Title & Author:

Folk architecture in Little Dixie : a regional culture in Missouri / Howard Wight Marshall.

Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1981.

Description:

xiv, 146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-143) and index.
Little Dixie emerges: democrats and old slave days -- The notion of folk architecture -- Building Little Dixie: the houses -- Old barns of Little Dixie -- A note on construction methods and materials -- Architecture and the sense of place.

Summary:

"This study is about material culture and settlement history in a very interesting place and time. Its focus is on the people and the understated voice of their architecture of tradition. ... this is a book about how folk artifacts help define and illustrate settlement history and cultural regions"--Excerpt from preface, page vii.

ISBN:

0826203299
9780826203298

Subject:

Vernacular architecture Missouri Little Dixie.
Architecture vernaculaire Missouri Little Dixie.
Vernacular architecture
Little Dixie (area).

Holdings:

Location: Library main 68256
Call No.: ID:86-B10172
Status: Available

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