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• - Illustrated essays on pioneer techniques of building houses from turf or hollowed out of rock, from Websteader SodHouses.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A virtual visit to the oldest continuously inhabited street in America with its original houses, from Hudson Valley Network.
  
• - An analysis of evidence from room-by-room probate inventories 1633-1685.
  
• - A restored fortified homestead in the Mohawk Valley and site of a moved, restored Dutch barn.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Explores the rise and fall of Midwestern farmhouses, and the literature they inspired. Also examines the cost of advances in agriculture. From PBS.
  
• - Brief history, description and visitor information on the 17th-century log house, home of Daniel Boone's grandparents.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An illustrated article from Florida Heritage Magazine on Florida's vernacular architecture. Plans and photographs of log-cabins and cottages, bibliography.
  
• - Private survey of Dutch barns in the Mohawk and Schoharie Valleys. Mission statement, photographs and field journal, plus links to Dutch barn and vernacular architecture sites.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Study by the Department of Landscape Architecture at Virginia Tech. Photographs and commentary.
  
• - Survey by New Mexico State University of the historic buildings of Columbus for the National Park Service. Photographs and history.
  
• - Abstract of a book by Howard Wight Marshall, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Information for ordering.
  
• - On-line version of an exhibition on slave life by George Washington University Professor John Michael Vlach. Photographs and descriptions of slave cabins.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An illustrated description by Colgate College Professor of Art and Art History, Eric Van Schaack.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Claire Bonney provides photographs, descriptions and floor plans for ten 19th-century stone buildings in Jefferson County, and traces their roots to French emigration to northern New York State.
  
• - Description from the Indiana Humanities Council of a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition exploring the architecture and uses of the barn. Tour schedule in Indiana 2001-2.