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 Historic Architecture of Blacksburg, Virginia - http://spec.lib.vt.edu/bicent/slides/ssintro.htm On-line version of a slide show by Gibson Worsham. A text version is available for downloading. Hosted by Special Collections of the University Libraries, Virginia Tech. |
 Huguenot Street Historic District, New Paltz, NY - http://www.hvnet.com/museums/huguenotst/ A virtual visit to the oldest continuously inhabited street in America with its original houses, from Hudson Valley Network. |
 Taos Pueblo, New Mexico - http://www.nps.gov/history/worldheritage/taos.htm This well-preserved group of adobe houses is thought to date from before 1400. A photograph and description of this World Heritage site from the US National Park Service. |
 Death of a Dream - http://www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses/ Explores the rise and fall of Midwestern farmhouses, and the literature they inspired. Also examines the cost of advances in agriculture. From PBS. |
 Vernacular House Forms in 17th-Century Plymouth Colony - http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jfd3a/Plymouth/folkhouse.htm An analysis of evidence from room-by-room probate inventories 1633-1685. |
 Vernacular Architecture in Rural and Small Town Missouri: An Introduction - http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/miscpubs/mp0688.htm Abstract of a book by Howard Wight Marshall, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Information for ordering. |
 The Vernacular Architecture of Hamilton, New York - http://www4.colgate.edu/scene/sept1997/architecture.html An illustrated description by Colgate College Professor of Art and Art History, Eric Van Schaack. |
 Grottos of the Midwest - http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~niless/awsthome.htm Susan A. Niles of Lafayette College explains and illustrates this distinctive folk building tradition. These structures are built of concrete studded with glass, stone, ceramics, and sometimes whole objects. |
 Jualpa Mine Camp Rehabilitation Project -- Historic Structures Report - http://www.juneau.lib.ak.us/history/Jualpa_Mine/struct.htm Structural analysis and rehabilitation of buildings in the Gold Creek area, Alaska, that grew out of a gold rush in the 1880s. Hosted by Juneau Public Library. |
 Historic Fort Klock Restoration - http://www.fortklock.org A restored fortified homestead in the Mohawk Valley and site of a moved, restored Dutch barn. |
 Back of the Big House: The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation - http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse On-line version of an exhibition on slave life by George Washington University Professor John Michael Vlach. Photographs and descriptions of slave cabins. |
 Hancock Shaker Village - http://www.hancockshakervillage.org/ An outdoor history museum of Shaker life in western Massachusetts. Twenty original buildings and historic working farm are used to interpret the life of America's most successful communitarian society. |
 Henry Whitfield State Museum - http://www.whitfieldmuseum.org Begun in 1639, The Henry Whitfield House, in Guilford, Connecticut, is the oldest remaining house in Connecticut. |
 Survey of Columbus, New Mexico - http://web.nmsu.edu/~publhist/columbus.htm Survey by New Mexico State University of the historic buildings of Columbus for the National Park Service. Photographs and history. |
 Dutch Barn Preservation Society - http://www.dutchbarns.org/ A not-for-profit educational organization for the study and preservation of New World Dutch barns. Prints a newsletter twice a year with the latest findings on Dutch barns. |