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Early nineteenth century construction techniques along Indiana's eastern National Road (1830-1850)

This thesis argues that early nineteenth-century domestic architecture along Indiana's eastern National Road (Wayne, Henry and Hancock Counties) was a product of the available local materials, not a product of cultural influences traveling along the Road. While the first chapter drives in this point, the second and third chapters describe the local materials (builders and carpenters, wood, saw-mills, clay, brickmaking and limestone), and explain construction techniques in a series of case study buildings. The thesis concludes by not only confirming the proposition, but also by making a few conclusions regarding early nineteenth-century construction methods. / Department of Architecture

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/188391
Date January 2007
CreatorsMolnar, Katherine J.
ContributorsSpodek, Jonathan C.
Source SetsBall State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format154 leaves : ill., maps (some col.), plans ; 28 cm.
SourceVirtual Press
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