Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings by Visser, Thomas Durant -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Contents Preface to Ebook Edition Preface 1 Discovering the History of Farm Buildings

Design Traditions, Fashions, and Innovations Timber Frames Hand-Hewn Timbers Scribe Rule and Square Rule Balloon Frames Nails Saw Marks Wall Sheathings Barn Doors Windows Foundations and Basements Cupolas and Ventilators Model Barns Diversification and Specialization

2 Barns

English Barns Acadian Barns Extended English Barns Side-Hill English Barns Field Barns and Hay Barns Reconfigured English Barns Gable-Front Barns Gable-Front Bank Barns High-Drive Bank Barns Monitor-Roofed Barns Covered High-Drive Dairy Barns Round and Polygonal Dairy Barns Late-Nineteenth-Century Eaves-Front Bank Barns Madawaska Twin Barns Ground-Level Stable Barns Late-Twentieth-Century Dairy Barns

3 Outbuildings

Connected Barns Milk Rooms, Dairy Rooms, and Butteries Creameries or Dairies Icehouses Milk Houses Springhouses and Well Houses Windmills Outhouses and Privies Woodsheds and Wood Houses

4 Buildings for Feed Storage

Granaries Corn Cribs Interior Silos Square Wooden Silos Polygonal Wooden Silos Stacked-Wood Silos Wooden Stave Silos Concrete Silos Tile Silos Steel Silos

5 Other Farm Buildings

Horse Stables and Carriage Barns Wagon Sheds Garages Shops Piggeries Slaughterhouses Smokehouses and Ash Houses Sheep Barns Henhouses Colony Houses Brooder Houses Converted Poultry Barns Multistory Poultry Barns

6 Farm Buildings for Specialty Crops

Maple Sugar Houses Greenhouses Hop Houses Potato Houses Tobacco Barns Cranberry Screenhouses and Outbuildings Blueberry Farm Buildings Apple Farm Buildings

Notes Index

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