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Author Rehder, John B.

Title Tennessee log buildings : a folk tradition / John B. Rehder.

Publication Info. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2012]
©2012

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Discovering Folk Architecture -- Two Tennessee Hearths : A Settlement History -- Log Houses -- Log Barns and Outbuildings -- Exceptional Log Places -- Appendix: Distribution Maps.
Note Print version record.
Summary Drawing on more than four decades of research, Tennessee Log Buildings examines one of the Volunteer State and rsquo;s most precious and mdash;and fast-disappearing and mdash;traditions. From the pioneer era through the mid and ndash;twentieth century, folk builders in Tennessee used logs to construct cabins, barns, other outbuildings, schools, and churches. In warm, accessible prose that often makes this deeply researched work read like guidebook, John Rehder explores the varied styles and architectural characteristics of these fascinating structures, including their floor plans, the types of timber used, and the different notches that were cut into the logs to secure the structures. Profusely illustrated with over one hundred images, Tennessee Log Houses traces the evolution of log houses from one-room (or single-pen) dwellings to more elaborate homes of various types, such as saddlebags, Cumberland houses, dogtrots, and two-story I-houses. Rehder discusses the historic settlement patterns and building traditions that led to this variety of house types and identifies their particular occurrences throughout the state by drawing on surveys conducted in forty-two counties by teams working for the Tennessee Historical Commission (THC). Similarly, he explores disparate barn and outbuilding types, including the distinctive cantilever barns that are found predominantly in East Tennessee. Sprinkled throughout the book are engaging anecdotes that convey just what it is like to conduct field research in remote rural areas. Rehder also describes in detail a number of the state and rsquo;s exceptional log places, among them Wynnewood, an enormous structure in Middle Tennessee which dates back to the early nineteenth century and which suffered severe tornado damage in 2008. As the author notes, many of the buildings originally identified in the THC investigations have now vanished completely while others are in serious disrepair. Thus, this book not only offers an instructive and delightful look at a key part of Tennessee and rsquo;s heritage but also makes an eloquent plea for its preservation. Until his death in 2011, JOHN B. REHDER was a professor of geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He first joined the UT faculty in 1967. He was the author of Appalachian Folkways, which won the Pioneer America Society and rsquo;s Fred B. Kniffen Book Award in 2004, and Delta Sugar: Louisiana and rsquo;s Vanishing Plantation Landscape, which won the Vernacular Architecture Forum and rsquo;s 2000 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award.
Subject Log buildings -- Tennessee -- History.
Log buildings -- Tennessee -- Design and construction.
Vernacular architecture -- Tennessee -- History.
Farm buildings -- Tennessee -- History.
Historic buildings -- Tennessee.
Tennessee -- Social life and customs.
Tennessee -- History, Local.
ARCHITECTURE -- Methods & Materials.
ARCHITECTURE -- General.
Farm buildings. (OCoLC)fst00920970
Historic buildings. (OCoLC)fst00957723
Log buildings. (OCoLC)fst01001880
Log buildings -- Design and construction. (OCoLC)fst01001881
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Vernacular architecture. (OCoLC)fst01165401
Tennessee. (OCoLC)fst01205353
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
Other Form: Print version: Rehder, John B. Tennessee log buildings. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2012 9781572338746 (DLC) 2012017303 (OCoLC)793910999
ISBN 9781572339316 (electronic bk.)
1572339314 (electronic bk.)
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