Ozark vernacular houses : a study of rural homeplaces in the Arkansas Ozarks, 1830-1930 / Jean Sizemore.

Main entry:

Sizemore, Jean.

Title & Author:

Ozark vernacular houses : a study of rural homeplaces in the Arkansas Ozarks, 1830-1930 / Jean Sizemore.

Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1994.

Description:

xi, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Iowa, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) and index.
1. Overview of Ozark Vernacular Houses -- 2. The Ozarks as a Geographical and Cultural Region -- 3. State and Local History -- 4. House Types in the Arkansas Ozarks -- 5. Barns and Outbuildings -- 6. The House and the Ozark Landscape -- 7. Construction Methods and Materials -- 8. Living in the Ozark House -- 9. Conclusion.

Summary:

A significant regional work, Ozark Vernacular Houses focuses on building forms and their relationship to the transmission of cultural ideas. It offers a microcosmic view of how the unwritten, tradition-based methods of house building in Washington and Stone counties in northwest Arkansas were emblematic of the whole region. Far from being the haphazard houses of popular imagination, Ozark houses were based on a few archetypal plans that were carried in the minds of generations of Ozark craftsmen.
Over 160 photographs, drawings, and maps provide examples of the four traditional house types - the single pen, the double pen, the dogtrot, and the I-house - and reveal the unity of a distinctive culture in the Arkansas Ozarks.
Sizemore's interpretive analysis is not limited to architectural forms. She examines both the inner and outer spaces of the Ozark house. Included in Sizemore's study are the material objects its owners possessed, the way the areas within the house were arranged, the structure within the house, as well as the landscape that formed the backdrop for the house, the yard arrangement, and the barns and outbuildings.
Of importance to architects, folklorists, cultural historians, and anyone interested in the Ozarks, this fascinating examination of the Ozark house is a way toward understanding the mind of the inhabitants and their way of life.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1557283109 (alk. paper)
9781557283108 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Vernacular architecture Arkansas History 19th century.
Vernacular architecture Arkansas History 20th century.
Vernacular architecture Ozark Mountains Region History 19th century.
Vernacular architecture Ozark Mountains Region History 20th century.
Architecture vernaculaire Arkansas Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture vernaculaire Arkansas Histoire 20e siècle.
Vernacular architecture.
Arkansas.
United States Ozark Mountains Region.

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 104883
Call No.: ID NA730.A5.S59; ID:94-B2075
Status: Available

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