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Texas Log Buildings
A Folk Architecture
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Terry G. Jordan
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English
Published/Copyright:
1978
About this book
Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.
Author / Editor information
The late Terry G. Jordan held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas in the geography department at the University of Texas at Austin.
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So well written that it will appeal not only to folklorists and architectural historians but also to anyone who has ever stopped the car on a Sunday afternoon and walked across a pasture to look at an old house.
— Dallas Morning NewsWhat is undoubtedly one of the most important books in recent years on Old West architecture . . . will cause many a reader to dream of owning his or her own log cabin far from the bustle of civilization.
— Frontier Times. . . will bring a new awareness of a vanishing type of architecture and a fresh appreciation of the surviving log structures.
— Houston PostTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface to the Second Paperback Printing
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Acknowledgments
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1. A Regional Folk Architecture
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2. The Origin & Diffusion of Log Folk Architecture
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3. Raising a Log Wall
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4. Corner Notching
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5. Construction of Floors, Roofs, & Chimneys
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6. Log Dwelling Types & Floorplans
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7. Log Public Buildings
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8. Rural Log Outbuildings
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9. Texas Log Culture Regions
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1. A List of Texas Restoration Projects Open to the Public That Include Log Structures
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2. A List of Replicas or Reconstructions of Log Buildings in Texas
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Notes
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Glossary of Log Construction Terms Encountered in Texas
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
November 12, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780292759923
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eBook ISBN:
9780292759923
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
