Author: Deb Schense
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932043440
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Luella Hazeltine spent over a decade photographing barns in color. Since then, some are no longer standing, some are restored, and others have new uses. This 6x9" book of 128 pages is in color, county by county.
Author: Deb Schense
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430302747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Originally there were approximately 200,000 barns built in Iowa. Now it is estimated that only 60,000 barns remain, with another 1,000 or more barns disappearing from Iowa's landscape annually. This book preserves in print Eastern Iowa's historic barns built from 1839 to 1955 with over 175 photographs from the author's research, the first ever Amana Colonies barn tour, the Johnson County Historical Society barn tour, and the Iowa Barn Foundation's annual barn tour. Eight Iowa counties and 20 rural cities are covered. Former president Hoover was living as a youth five miles from one of the featured octagonal barns when it was built in 1883. This barn's aesthetic beauty is so inspiring that people from other countries come to visit this barn each year to see the unusual bell shaped roof, a suspended staircase, a railway car, and laminated interior ribs. It may be the only barn built with a bell shaped roof and is thought to be the oldest surviving barn built of it's kind in the U. S.
Author: Lowell J. Soike
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barns
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Includes catalog of 160 round barns in Iowa.
Author: Jim Heynen
Publisher: Bureau Oak Book
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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"Complementing Harker's photographs are vignettes by poet and writer Jim Heynen. Both whimsical and endearing, each vignette treats barns as organic and intelligent entities, reflecting the living history that can be found inside each rural structure."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096878
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
Author: Deb M. Schense
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430302739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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This book includes over 175 photographs covering twenty rural cities and eight different counties together with the first-ever Amana Colonies barn tour. Many different types of barns are displayed such as: octagonal, hexagonal, Pennsylvania, monitor, gambrel, and gable.--Back cover.
Author: Hyatt Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537185279
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Swedish immigrant farmers who transplanted themselves to the soils of Iowa contributed to a powerful architectural landscape. The barns they built were designed with a combination of practicality and functionality, as well as an identity of individual family roots. Painter Hyatt Moore joined the passion of the University Park Inn and Suites in Ames, Iowa to pay tribute to these monuments of labor and lumber. With over 100 barns, each painted in its own unique style, then with haiku added by the painter, the book is a delight to any fascinated with barn culture, with Iowa landscapes or a colorful and artistic approach to life in general.
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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In Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim trace Iowa's architectural history from the earliest Native American influences to the present. Divided into five regional areas--Mississippi River East, Mississippi River West, and the Central, South, and North regions--the book's entries within each area are presented on a town-by-town basis to include the full array of Iowa's architectural offerings in various styles. Whether discussing farm houses, barns, and silos or churches, schools, courthouses, and libraries, the volume shows how a unity of rural and urban is effectively mirrored in Iowa's buildings.
Author: Michael P. Harker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Michael Harker’s goal is to record Iowa’s historically significant architecture before it disappears forever. From Coon Center School no. 5 in Albert City to Pleasant Valley School in Kalona, North River School in Winterset to Douglas Center School in Sioux Rapids, and Iowa’s first school to Grant Wood’s first school, he has achieved this goal on a grand scale in Harker’s One-Room Schoolhouses.
Author: Nancy Schumm-Burgess
Publisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560374837
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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An exploration of the barns of Wisconsin that includes 107 full-color photographs along with details about the structures.
