On permanence: Thoughts about a historical reconstruction of a value basic to building

Journal of Architectural Education

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-54

  Cavanagh, Ted ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 67149119563     PISSN: 10464883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/104648800564725     Document Type: Review

References (44)

1. David Harvey. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference (Cambridge MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), p. 359
2. For technical bulletins see, for instance: A.T. Hansen, "Wood Frame Foundations," Canadian Building Digest 234 (Sept. 1984) National Research Council of Canada
3. Jack Luer and Jesse Francis. The Vanishing French Heritage in the Illinois Country, French Louisiana, and French Colonial Canada, 3 vol. (Ste. Genevieve, MO: Charles E. Peterson Institute, 1999)
4. Bernard Herman, Architecture and Rural Lifi in Central Delaware, 1790-1900 (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1987), p. 84. The quote is making a general statement about historic mid-Atlantic American housing stock
5. Henry Glassie. Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts (Knoxville TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1975)
6. His method is based on Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970)
7. and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology (New York: Basic Books, 1963)
8. For diffusion and the spatial distribution of building see Fred Kniffen and Henry Glassie, "Building in Wood in the Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective," Geographical Review 56 (1966): 40-66
9. For a critical view, see Michael Ann Williams and M. Jane Young, "Grammar, Codes and Performance: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Models in the Study of Vernacular Architecture," in Elizabeth Cromley and Carter Hudkins, eds., Gender, Class, and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture V (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1995), p. 41
10. Henry Glassie. Pattern in the Material Folk Culture in the Eastern United States (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1968), p. 11
11. Timothy Spears. 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995), p. 12
12. quoting Frederick Jameson Marxism and Form, Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), p. 61
13. In many regions there still exist earth-fast structures that have survived centuries. Carey Carson, Norman Barka, William Kelso, Garry Stone, and Dell Upton, "Impermanent Architecture in the Southern American Colonies," Winterthur Portfolio 16 (1981): 135-197. See p. 138, n. 7 for reference to extant seventeenth-century structure
14. William Hoskins. "The Rebuilding of Rural England, 1570-1640," Past and Present 4 (Nov. 1953): 44-59
15. and Robert Machin, "The Great Rebuilding: A Reassessment," Past and Present 77 (Nov. 1977): 33-56
16. For "vernacular threshold," see Carson, "Impermanent Architecture," p. 136, n. 4
17. Carson, "Impermanent Architecture," p. 160
18. Charles Hoffmann, A Winter in the West [1835] (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1966; facsimile), p. 41
19. John Faragher, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1986)
20. Captain Basil Hall, Travels in North America, 3 vol. (Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829), vol. 3, p. 285
21. Gwendolyn Wright, "Dilemmas of Diversity: Vernacular Style and High Style," Precis 5 (Fall, 1984), p. 118
22. See also Glassie, Pattern, p. 11, for the same point relative to folklore and material culture, described as a tradition-based circumstance
23. Gilbert Herbert, Pioneers of Prefabrication: The British Contribution to the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), passim
24. Catherine Stewart, New Homes in the West [1843] (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1966; facsimile), pp. 80-81
25. Charles Latrobe, Rambler in North America, 2 vols. (London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1835), p. 103
26. Joseph Jobé, Extended Travels in Romantic America (Lausanne: Edita, 1859), p. 190
27. Thomas Jefferson [1787] quoted in Fredrick Nichols and Ralph Griswold, Thomas Jefferson Landscape Architect (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978), p. 22. Later in his career he differentiated between some types of wood construction
28. Calver Vaux, Villas and Cottages: The Style-Book of the Hudson River School [1864, 2nd ed.] (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1991), p. 70
29. Lewis is quoted in Louis Houck, A History of Missouri, 3 vol. (Chicago: R. R. Donnelly, 1908), vol. 3, pp. 85-86
30. John Heckewelder [1792] in Shirley McCord, ed., Travel Accounts of Indiana 1691-1961 (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Historical Bureau, 1970), p. 35
31. Russell Gerlach, Immigrants in the Ozarks: A Study in Ethnic Geography (Columbia MO: University of Missouri Press, 1976), p. 18
32. Barton Griffith [1833], McCord, Travel Accounts, p. 155
33. John McDermott, ed., The Frontier Reexamined (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967), pp. 2-5
34. See also Charles Peterson, Colonial St. Louis: Building a Creole Capital (Missouri Historical Society, 1949), p. 38
35. Lawrence Lowic, The Architectural Heritage of St. Louis, 1803-1891 (St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1982), p. 29
36. Hoffman, Winter, pp. 120-121
37. John McDermott, ed., "Journals of Dr George Hunter" Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 53/4 (Jul. 1963), p. 30
38. For the Chinese style, see: Peter Collins, Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1965), p. 35
39. Timothy Flint, Recollections of the Last Ten Years (Boston, 1826) reproduced in Glimpses of the Past 1/7 (June 1934), 22-23
40. Henry Bingham [1818], McCord, Travel Accounts, p. 92
41. Samuel Brown. In Harlow Lindley, ed., Indiana as Seen by Early Travelers: A Collection of Reprints from Books of Travel, Letters and Diaries Prior to 1830 (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission, 1916), pp. 150-151
42. Referring to the Second Presbyterian Church [1846]. William Bross in Alfred Andreas, History of Chicago from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Chicago: Alfred Andreas, 1884-86), p. 145
43. Fred Peterson, Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Houses of the Upper Midwest, 1850-1920 (Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 1991), pp. 54-56
44. Margaret Fuller, Summer on the Lakes in 1843 (Boston: C. C. Little, 1844), p. 29