Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England

Hubka, Thomas C.

ISBN 10: 1584653728 / ISBN 13: 9781584653721

Published by University Press of New England, 2004

About this Item

Very good condition. Light wear. May not include CD DVD, access code or any other supplemental materials.

Seller Inventory # VLM.18ZI

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584653728
• ISBN 13: 9781584653721
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

“Big house, little house, back house, barn”―this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of them lived. The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America.

About the Author

THOMAS C. HUBKA currently teaches in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. In 2006 he received the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s Henry Glassie Award in recognition of his lifetime of achievement. His most recent book is Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community which won the 2004 Orbis Book Prize for Polish studies, Honorable Mention.