Download or read book Barns of Connecticut written by Markham Starr and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 100 stunning full-color photographs along with helpful diagrams and historic photos, Barns of Connecticut captures both the iconic and the unique, including historic and noteworthy barns. The book discusses the importance of barns to Connecticut agriculture across our state and up to the present day. Markham Starr’s Barns of Connecticut offers a lovely introduction to the architectural, functional, and agricultural roles these structures played in early Connecticut. Through text and color photographs, it tells a story of change and continuity. From the earliest colonial structures to the low steel buildings of modern dairy farms, barns have adapted to meet the needs of each generation; they’ve stored wheat, hay, and tobacco, and housed farm animals and dairy cows. These enduring structures display the optimism, ingenuity, hard work, and practicality of the people who tend land and livestock throughout the state.
Download or read book Connecticut written by Christina E Cole and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2024-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostalgia creeps in and captures our souls. Whether triggered by a specific scent when wind blows the aroma of sweet grass your way or the burnt orange and sienna shades of changing leaves in the fall, there is no denying nostalgia's pull on our heartstrings. The classic red barn represents nostalgia for author Christina Cole. Puzzle boxes and wall calendars are often adorned with unattainable, far-off places in New England. Piece by piece, a dramatic explosion of color and moody skies falls into place. The finished product, or the page flip to the next month, results in the emotion of the end of something and the longing to visit those magical moments. That is what the winding roads of rural Connecticut are like, littered with fascinating history, architecture, and purpose, with all the perfect expectations of an unopened puzzle box.
Download or read book Connecticut Architecture written by Christopher Wigren and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecticut boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in New England, from Colonial churches and Modernist houses to refurbished nineteenth-century factories. The state’s history includes landscapes of small farmsteads, country churches, urban streets, tobacco sheds, quiet maritime villages, and town greens, as well as more recent suburbs and corporate headquarters. In his guide to this rich and diverse architectural heritage, Christopher Wigren introduces readers to 100 places across the state. Written for travelers and residents alike, the book features buildings visible from the road. Featuring more than 200 illustrations, the book is organized thematically. Sections include concise entries that treat notable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities, emphasizing the importance of the built environment and its impact on our sense of place. The text highlights key architectural features and trends and relates buildings to the local and regional histories they represent. There are suggestions for further reading and a helpful glossary of architectural terms A project of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, the book reflects more than 30 years of fieldwork and research in statewide architectural survey and National Register of Historic Places programs.
Download or read book Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings written by Thomas Durant Visser and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape
Download or read book Barn Stories from Roxbury Connecticut written by Rachel D. Carley and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Connecticut Barn Book 2 written by Genevieve Howe and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Connecticut Barn Book 3 written by Genevieve Howe and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sentinel Houses Barns written by Gloria Allen Thorne and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Barns and Covered Bridges written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovingly written book presents reliable records of such vanishing forms of architecture as the American barn and covered bridge. Delightful anecdotes accompany accurate line drawings of barns attached to houses, an "open" log barn in Virginia, a "top hat" barn in North Carolina, and more. Over 75 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley written by Darcy Cahill and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 beautiful colour photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delivers a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and an agricultural perspective through the changing seasons. Readers will enjoy an overview of the tobacco industry from the farmer's perspective and tour the valley's rich agricultural history, using interviews and hands-on research to captured the essence of this special crop. Learn why it is still an important part of life for the region and how Yankee ingenuity married form and function to solve unique problems presented by fickle weather conditions. Further, the text explores the construction and unique features of tobacco sheds, and how some historic sheds have been transformed, given new life and new uses. This book will be treasured by everyone fascinated with farm architecture and rural New England life.
Download or read book Connecticut Valley Vernacular written by James F. O'Gorman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, O'Gorman treats both the people and the sheds with the respect and admiration their precarious presence requires."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Barnes Barns Family written by and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Barn in New England written by Christopher C. G. Guest and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural examination of a ca. 1700 Spencer family barn in Guilford, including photographs (some col.) of barns and bibliography.
Download or read book Connecticut Coast written by Diana Ross McCain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecticut Coast is a richly illustrated history of the Nutmeg State’s storied shoreline, from New York State to Rhode Island. Researched and written by a longtime expert in Connecticut history, it comprises a brief narrative on each of the twenty-four shoreline communities, accompanied by the area’s best historic photography. Sidebars sprinkled throughout present lighthouses, fishing and shellfishing, transportation, storms, and more—from the legendary Savin Rock Amusement Park to stylish Jackie Kennedy christening the USS Lafayette in Groton.
Download or read book Abandoned Connecticut written by Christina E. Cole and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall, sinister buildings loom with empty cavities and the air of foreboding. As you make your way through the pages of Abandoned Connecticut: First World Wasted, you will encounter tales of horror, rumors of torture, speculation of death, testaments to hauntings, and perhaps some of the most magnificent and alluring architecture New England has to offer. In a disposable society of pop-up houses, warehouses churches, cheap construction, and strip malls, the talent that we have lost in our buildings is astounding. History crumbles into piles of brick and is hauled away with the trash. Is there any wonder that so many wish to explore our forgotten to document what will be lost? If not us, then who? So much has been lost that could have helped so many. Read through these pages and learn about our structural ghosts from their inception to their ultimate demise and a region that has evolved into a First World Wasted.
Download or read book Building a Shed written by Joseph Truini and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to build five complete sheds. With detailed coverage of materials options and construction techniques.
Download or read book Letters to a Young Farmer written by Martha Hodgkins and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An agricultural revolution is sweeping the land. Appreciation for high-quality food, often locally grown, an awareness of the fragility of our farmlands, and a new generation of young people interested in farming, animals, and respect for the earth have come together to create a new agrarian community. To this group of farmers, chefs, activists, and visionaries, Letters to a Young Farmer is addressed. Three dozen esteemed leaders of the changes that made this revolution possible speak to the highs and lows of farming life in vivid and personal letters specially written for this collaboration. Barbara Kingsolver speaks to the tribe of farmers—some born to it, many self-selected—with love, admiration, and regret. Dan Barber traces the rediscovery of lost grains and foodways. Michael Pollan bridges the chasm between agriculture and nature. Bill McKibben connects the early human quest for beer to the modern challenge of farming in a rapidly changing climate. Letters to a Young Farmer is a vital road map of how we eat and farm, and why now, more than ever before, we need farmers.
