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 Books, Articles, and Videos

Architecture—Folk and Vernacular

 Glassie, Henry. (2000) Vernacular Architecture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

 Jakle, John A., Robert W. Bastian, and Douglas K. Meyer. (1989) Common Houses in America's

 Small Towns. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

 Roberts, Warren E. (1996) Log Buildings of Southern Indiana. Bloomington: Trickster Press.

 Architecture—Guides to Styles

 Baker, John Milnes. (2002) American House Styles: A Precise Guide. New York: W. W. Norton.

 Blumenson, John J. G. (1981). Identifying American Architecture, 1600-1945. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

 Longstreth, Richard. (2000) The Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture.

Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

McAlester, Virgina and Lee. (1996) A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

 Whiffen, Marcus. (1992) American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to Styles. Cambridge, MA:

MIT Press.

 Architecture—History of American

 Gelernter, Mark. (1999) A History of American Architecture: Buildings in their Cultural and

Technological Context. Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England.

A richly illustrated history of American architecture that explains why particular architectural ideas occurred when and where they did.

 Roth, Leland. (1979) A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper & Row.

            Perhaps the standard text on the subject.

----- . (2001) American Architecture: A History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

"This is the best one-volume survey of American architecture on the market today," according to Choice.

 Upton, Dell. (1998) Architecture in the United States. Oxford: Oxford university Press.

Revolutionizing interpretation examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art.

 Architecture—Indiana

 Roberts, Warren E. (1996) Log Buildings of Southern Indiana. Bloomington: Trickster Press.

Shaw, Bill and Marsh Davis. (2002) 99 Historic Homes of Indiana: A Look Inside. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Coffee table book. Features the Dick and Marilyn Hornberger house at 90 South Ohio Street in Martinsville.

Wyman, Tom. "Evansville firm becomes iron giant." Indiana Preservationist, September-October 2005: 4-5.

Architecture—Martinsville and Morgan County

Martin, John. "The landmarks that launched Wooden's career." Indiana Preservationist,

November-December 2001: 10-11.

Morgan County Interim Report: Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. (1993)

Indianapolis: Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana.

Stuttgen, Joanne Raetz. (1994) One-Room and Two-Room Country Schoolhouses of Morgan

County, Indiana: An Architectural Survey. Unpublished manuscript produced with support of an Indiana Heritage Research Grant. Copies available at Morgan County Public Library, Martinsville; Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana; Indiana Historical Society; and Indiana Humanities Council.

----- . (2002) (Re)Constructing the Little Red Schoolhouse: History, Landscape, and Memory.

PhD dissertation, Indiana University. Copy available at Morgan County Public Library, Martinsville, and Indiana University Library.

Barns

Noble, Allen G. and Hubert G. H. Wilhelm. (1995) Barns of the Midwest. Columbus: Ohio State

University Press.

Noble, Allen G.and Richard K. Cleek. (1995 ) The Old Barn Book: A Field Guide to North

American Barns and Other Farm Structures. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University

Press.

Bridges

Cooper, James L. (1997) Artistry and Ingenuity in Artificial Stone: Indiana's Concrete Bridges,

1900-1942.

Published by the author. Copies available from the author. Contact Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana 1-800-450-4534 for contact information.

----- . (1987) Iron Monuments to Distant Posterity: Indiana's Metal Bridges, 1870-1930.

Published by the author. Copies may still be available from the author. Contact Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana 1-800-450-4534 for contact information.

DeLony, Eric. (1993) Landmark American Bridges. New York: Bullfinch Press.

Cemeteries

Indiana Preservationist, March-April 2003.

            Feature topic: "Landmarks of the Passed."

Meyer, Richard E., ed. (1992) Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture.

Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.

Ridlen, Susanne S. Tree-Stump Tombstones: A Field Guide to Rustic Funerary Art in Indiana.

Kokomo, IN: Old Richardville Publications, Kokomo-Howard County Public Library. 1999.

Roberts, Warren E. "The Sincerest Form of Flattrry: Originals and Imitations in 'Rustic

Monuments' of the Limestone Belt of Indiana." In Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the

Overlooked,145-61. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press.

Stuttgen, Joanne Raetz. (2000) "Tree Stump Tombstones: Funerary Art from Indiana."

Washington State Cemetery Association Newsletter, Issue 1, No. 2. Click here to view article.

Churches

Indiana Preservationst, May-June1994.

            Feature topic: "Keeping the Faith."

Indiana Preservationist, November-December 2003.

            Feature topic: "Keeping the Faith."

Historic Preservation

Barthel, Diane. (1996) Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historical Identity.

 New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Fitch, James Marston. (1982) Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World.

New York: McGraw-Hill.

Murtagh, William J. (1997) Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America.

New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Illustrated Architectural Dictionaries

Ernest Burden. (2002) Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Carley, Rachel. (1994) The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture. New York, Henry Holt and Company.

Ching, Francis D. K. (1995) A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Kennedy, Alexandra. (1992) Visual Dictionary of Buildings. New York: Dorling Kindersley   Publishing.

Log Buildings

Indiana Preservationist, January-February 1995.

            Feature topic: "Cabin Fever"

Roberts, Warren E. (1996) Log Buildings of Southern Indiana. Bloomington: Trickster Press.

Mail-Order/Catalogue/Kit Houses

Schweitzer, Robert and Michael W. R. Davis. (1990) America's Favorite Homes: Mail-Order

Catalogues as a Guide to Popular Early 20th-Century Houses. Detroit, MI: Wayne State

University Press.

Stevenson, Katherine Cole and H. Ward Jandl. (1986) Houses By Mail: A Guide to Houses from

Sears, Roebuck and Company. [Washington, D. C.: Preservation Press.] New York: John S. Wiley & Sons.

Thornton, Rosemary. (2004) California's Kit Homes: A Reprint of the 1925 Pacific Ready-Cut

Homes Catalogue. Alton, IL: Gentle Beam Publications.

----- . (2004) Finding the Houses that Sears Built: A Guide to the 60 Most

Popular Designs. Alton, IL: Gentle Beam Publications.

----- . (2002) The Houses that Sears Built: Everything You Wanted to Know About Sears

Catalog Homes. Alton, IL: Gentle Beam Publications.

Martinsville and Morgan County History

Blanchard, Charles.

Major, Noah J. (1915) Pioneers of Morgan County: Memoirs of Noah J. Major. Ed. Logan

Esarey. Indianapolis: E. J. Hecker. Indiana Historical Society Publications, Vol. V, No. 5.

Stuttgen, Joanne Raetz. (1995) Martinsville: A Pictorial History. St. Louis, MO: G. Bradley

Publishing.

History of Martinsville based on historic photographs, postcards, and other illustrative matter.

----- . (forthcoming) Martinsville and Morgan County. Chicago: Arcadia.

            History of Martinsville and Morgan County as depicted through historic postcard images.

Schoolhouses

Fuller, Wayne E. (1982) The Old Country School: The Story of Rural Education in the Middle

West. Chicago: University Press of Chicago.

Guilford, Andrew. (1996) America's Country Schools. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado.

Indiana Preservationist, November-December 1992.

            Feature topic: "School Days."

Rahn, Stuart. "Cross School teaches a new generation." Indiana Preservationist, July-August 1998: 13.

Stuttgen, Joanne Raetz. (1994) One-Room and Two-Room Country Schoolhouses of Morgan

County, Indiana: An Architectural Survey. Unpublished manuscript produced with support of an Indiana Heritage Research Grant. Copies available at Morgan County Public Library, Martinsville; Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana; Indiana Historical Society; and Indiana Humanities Council.

----- . (2002) (Re)Constructing the Little Red Schoolhouse: History, Landscape, and Memory.

PhD dissertation, Indiana University. Copy available at Morgan County Public Library, Martinsville, and Indiana University Library.

Transportation-Related Historic Resources

Indiana Preservationist, June-July 1998.

            Feature topic: "Driving Design."

Videos/DVDs

My Architect: A Son's Journey. (2005) Dir. Nathaniel Kahn New York: New Yorker Video.

The director, the illegitimate son of legendary architect Louis I. Kahn, undertakes a
worldwide exploration to discover and understand his father's and the personal choices he made.

Three Wright Eras: Places for Living, Work, Worship. (1997) PBS Home Video.

Explores three types of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. This program spans forty years
and encompasses the incredibly productive and tumultuous years until his death. All of the featured buildings are in Wisconsin, the state where Frank Lloyd Wright was born and lived most of his life.

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