Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England

ISBN-13:	9781684581351
Publisher:	Brandeis University Press
Publication date:	12/07/2022
Edition description:	New edition
Pages:	252
Sales rank:	155,636
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.30(d)

“Big house, little house, back house, barn”—this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of them lived. The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America.