The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America
Language: English
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1995
Series: Book 47 of 75 - Creating the North American Landscape
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.Saucony Book Shop
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Stiff color pictorial wraps. xvii,238 pp., illus. 1st thus. As issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Title
- The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America
- Author
- Ensminger, Robert F.
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- As New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801852528
- ISBN 13
- 9780801852527
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Series
- Book 47 of 75: Creating the North American Landscape
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture & Urban Design, Pennsylvania German
In The Pennsylvania Barn Robert Ensminger provides the first comprehensive study of an important piece of American vernacular architecture -- the forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania German barn. He offers a detailed examination of the Swiss prototype and the evolution, distribution, and future of this agricultural structure in North America.
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About the Author
Robert F. Ensminger is associate professor of geography, emeritus, at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
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Saucony Book Shop
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