Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720-1920

Herausgeber: McMurry, Sally; Dolsen, Nancy van

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The eight essays in this volume, based on years of field observation and research by leading scholars and preservationists, examine Pennsylvania German architecture in light of current scholarship and newly documented buildings. The book features dozens of never-before-published measured drawings of important sites.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 263mm x 187mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242782
• ISBN-10: 0812242785
• Artikelnr.: 33082397

Autorenporträt

Sally McMurry is Professor of American History at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of From Sugar Camp to Star Barn: Rural Life and Landscape in a Western Pennsylvania Community, 1780-1940. Nancy Van Dolsen is a historic preservation consultant and teaches history at Barton College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans,
1720-1920
-Sally McMurry and Nancy Van Dolsen
Chapter 1. Landscapes
-Gabrielle Lanier
Chapter 2. Rural Houses
-Sally McMurry
Chapter 3. Domestic Outbuildings
-Philip E. Pendleton
Chapter 4. Barns and Agricultural Outbuildings
-Sally McMurry and J. Ritchie Garrison
Chapter 5. Town House: From Borough to City, Lancaster's Changing
Streetscape
-Bernard L. Herman, Thomas Ryan, and David Schuyler
Chapter 6. Commerce and Culture: Pennsylvania German Commercial Vernacular
Architecture
-Diane Wenger and J. Ritchie Garrison
Chapter 7. Religious Landscapes
-Jerry Clouse
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments