Built in Texas /

Photographs and text describe historical buildings across Texas that were built with nature-made materials such as rocks, logs, and mud.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Texas Folklore Society
Otros Autores: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2000.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vernacular architecture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Vernacular architecture > Texas.
Texas.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Texas folk building: an introduction
  • "Built in Texas" / F.E. Abernethy
  • "The cultural geography of folk building forms in Texas" / G. Loyd Collier
  • Methods and materials-- "Building in Texas, 1844-1845" / Prince Karl von Solms-Braunfels
  • "Texas dugouts" / Ann Carpenter
  • "Adobe: earth, straw, and water" / John O. West, Roberto Gonzalez
  • "Log corner notching in Texas" / Terry G. Jordan
  • "Texas tie houses" / Pat Ellis Taylor
  • Style and form
  • "Comanche tepees" / Ferdinand Roemer
  • "Pueblo Indian housing in Texas: Ysleta del Sur" / Thomas A. Green, Jr.
  • "Alabama-Coushatta buildings" / Howard N. Martin
  • "The old Koch House" / Connie Hall
  • "Alsatian architecture in Medina County" / Terri Ross
  • "Silesian Polish folk architecture in Texas" / T. Lindsay Baker
  • "A Russian-German folk house in north Texas" / Terry G. Jordan
  • "Shotgun houses and shacks" / Sylvia Grider
  • Barns and outbuildings
  • "Barns and outbuildings" / Thomas J. Stanly
  • Gates and fences
  • "Rails, rocks, and pickets: traditional farmstead fencing in Texas" / Lonn Taylor
  • "Gates" / C.W. Wimberley
  • "The devil's hatband in the Lone Star State: The introduction of barbed wire in Texas" / Robert J. Duncan
  • Holding water
  • "Vanes in the wind: art and custom in Texas windmills" / James M. Day
  • "Tank, tub, and cistern" / Ernest B. Speck
  • "When the creeks run dry: water milling in the German hill country" / Glen Lich, Lera Tyler
  • Restoration and preservation
  • "The restoration of the Rice Family Log Home" / Steve Whiston
  • "Outdoor museums in Texas" / Willard B. Robinson.

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