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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Historic Fort Klock Restoration - http://www.fortklock.org
A restored fortified homestead in the Mohawk Valley and site of a moved, restored Dutch barn. |
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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. |