vernacular architecture

Lieutenant Gascoigne & family before the murder. New Zealand Wars peri...

The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. Public domain vintage photo from New... More

Phone Booth/Outhouse - National Parks Gallery

McGraw Ranch. The rustic outhouse reportedly dates to the early period of the ranch in the 1880s. It was converted to a phone booth for guests in the 1980s.

Thomas Andrew - [Village]. Museum of New Zealand collection

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photogra... More

Thomas Andrew - [Beachside village]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photogra... More

Thomas Andrew - [Pacific Island bay, with fale]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived ... More

Thomas Andrew - [Village scene]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived ... More

Thomas Andrew - [Village scene]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived ... More

Thomas Andrew - [Village scene]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photogra... More

Thomas Andrew - Pacific Island village

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived ... More

Thomas Andrew - [Village scene]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived ... More

Thomas Andrew - [Coastal scene]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photogra... More

Thomas Andrew - [Village scene]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photogra... More

Thomas Andrew - [Group of men building a fale, Vaiee, Samoa]

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived ... More

Honourable William Hall-Jones and Captain Gilbert, James McDonald

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Fijian House, James McDonald - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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The William Allen White House - Public Domain image, National Parks Ga...

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. The cabin, located west of Estes Park in Moraine Park, was purchased by Pulitzer Prize-winning news editor William Allen White a... More

Clara Barton House - National Parks Gallery

Glen Echo Park-Clara Barton House. The Clara Barton House was built in 1891 and is a fine example of late 19th-century American vernacular architecture. Its wood-framed exterior walls are made of lumber salvage... More

Structures on the William Allen White Cultural Landscape

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. The cabin on the left, which was purchased by the Whites in 1912, dates to 1887. The studio was built on top of the hill behind ... More

Historic Structures of the William Allen White Cultural Landscape

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. This image displays the upper and lower sleeping cabins, the pit privy, and the studio to the rear. It is likely that these four... More

William Allen White Pit Privy - Public Domain image, National Parks Ga...

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. The pit privy with privacy screen was situated between the two sleeping cabins on the property. The privy was likely added to t... More

Lower Sleeping Cabin - National Parks Gallery

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. The lower sleeping cabin is one of the structures of the vernacular landscape. The privy and upper sleeping cabin are visible i... More

The William Allen White Studio - Public Domain image, National Parks G...

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. Believed to have been constructed in 1913, this one-story log structure is situated up a steep slope above the main house. Its ... More

Lower Sleeping Cabin in the William Allen White Historic District

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. The lower sleeping cabin at the William Allen White cultural landscape has an estimated construction date of 1913. During his ye... More

Staff car in a strafed village, Flanders

A military car parked beside a sentry-box built of sandbags in a partly destroyed village. Several signs indicate a gas-alarm point is situated at the sentry station. As the war progressed, motor vehicles were ... More

Rocky Mountains Cabin #9 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

McGraw Ranch. This cabin served as the McGraw Residence, housing Frank and Ruth McGraw and their five girls. It was built by Frank in 1945 before his marriage the following year. He planted the large blue spruc... More

Bunkhouse and Main House at the Ranch

McGraw Ranch. The bunkhouse, in the foreground, was one of the buildings associated with original cattle ranch operations, when it was used as accommodations for the hired hands. When the property transitioned ... More

McGraw Ranch Bunkhouse - National Parks Gallery

McGraw Ranch. Bunkhouse, looking north. Located just west of the main house, this is one of the structures associated with the original cattle ranching operations. It was used as a winter home for the McGraws w... More

3335 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. Survey number: HABS GA-38-M Building/structure dates: after. 1920- before. 1929 In... More

3339 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. Survey number: HABS GA-38-N Building/structure dates: after. 1920- before. 1929 In... More

3331 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. Survey number: HABS GA-38-L Building/structure dates: after. 1920- before. 1929 In... More

Exterior Wall of the Welch Cave Building

Welch Cave Site, Ozark National Scenic Riverways. This is an example of Ozark Giraffe stonework, a distinctive style that was popular throughout the region between 1930 and 1950 during the Arts and Crafts move... More

The William Allen White Upper Sleeping Cabin

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. The upper sleeping cabin was believed to have been constructed in 1913; however, other records suggest that it was built in 1930... More

Welch Cave Building - National Parks Gallery

Welch Cave Site, Ozark National Scenic Riverways. The building was constructed by Dr. Diehl as a hospital. He selected a site over the mouth of the Welch Cave, from which the Welch Spring flowed. The spring wa... More

933 Railroad Avenue (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for further information. Survey... More

Troth's Fortune, Dover Road (State Route 331), Easton, Talbot County, ...

Significance: Troth's Fortune is a well-preserved example of late seventeenth century vernacular architecture in Maryland. The principal facade faces the Choptank River, the early major means of access. The t... More

3351 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for further information. ... More

3355 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for further information. ... More

945 Railroad Avenue (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for further information. ... More

Wolfe & Wright Avenues (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for further information. ... More

971 Railroad Avenue (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: This modified bungalow type house is in scale and character with 20th century vernacular architecture in the Johnsontown community. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for fu... More

938 Railroad Avenue (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for further information. ... More

House behind 937 Railroad Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for further information. E... More

959 Railroad Avenue (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. The only hip roof house in the community which is situated with its ridge line parallel to the stree... More

961 Railroad Avenue (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown; one of only two two-story buildings in the neighborhood. See "A Community History of... More

Sadler House, 5262 Eastern Valley Road, McCalla, Jefferson County, AL

2014 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: The Sadler House, built ca. 1827, is a product of vernacular architecture. The home reflects the practical living of 19th century Alabamians. The house meets... More

Wilder Ranch, Shops-Bunkhouse, 1401 Coast Road, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz...

Significance: Wilder Ranch State Park's ranch buildings, while representative of rural vernacular architecture, reflect a century of traditions associated with innovative and progressive dairy ranching in Calif... More

3344 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. See "A Community History of the Johnsontown Neighborhood" for further information. ... More

Patterson Homestead, 5100 South Nineteenth Avenue, Bozeman, Gallatin C...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: This homestead was patented by James L. Patterson on September 29, 1893 as the Gallatin Valley and Bozeman were in s the early stages of urbanizat... More

3383 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: Although probably dating from the 1960s or later, this broad gable-end residence is similar in scale and character to the earlier 20th century vernacular architecture in Johnsontown. Survey numbe... More

3361 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: House is in scale and character with remaining early 20th century frame vernacular architecture of Johnsontown. Only duplex in community with gable end roof which is oriented parallel to the stree... More

Rice's Gas Station Complex, Motel, Kimmerly Lots, South of Avon, 32 mi...

Significance: The gas station and motel are examples of 1930s filling station and automobile-related commercial lodging facilities made popular with new highway construction and increased automobile use at the ... More

Cabin #8 - National Parks Gallery

McGraw Ranch. There are six guest cabins, most built between 1935-36 when the McGraw family decided to convert their property into a guest ranch. The duplex cabins have matching design and construction, and the... More

View of Guest Cabins - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

McGraw Ranch. These guest cabins were built in a cluster arrangement circa 1936, when the ranch began to host guests. The cabins have similar construction plans and materials, and they were built by members of ... More

Main Ranch House/Lodge with Enclosed Porch

McGraw Ranch. The structures at the ranch are arranged in functional groupings. The Main Ranch House/Lodge is near other support buildings that were a part of everyday domestic patterns at McGraw Ranch. This wa... More

Welch Cave Building on the Current River

Welch Cave Site, Ozark National Scenic Riverways. The building was constructed between 1935 and 1937 over Welch Cave for Dr. Christian H. Diehl. Prevailing evidence suggests that Dr. Diehl never formally instit... More

Remnant of a Wall at the Welch Cave Site

Welch Cave Site, Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Dr. Diehl's family did not have much interest in maintaining the resort on the Current River following his death in 1940, and it soon fell into ruin. Portions ... More

Log Porch Railing at the William Allen White House

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. A log railing lines the southeast side of the porch of William Allen White's cabin, which served as a summer residence for the j... More

View from the Studio Area towards Moraine Park

William Allen White Cabin/Studio Historic District, Rocky Mountain National Park. This view from William Allen White's studio encompasses Moraine Park, Bear Lake Road, and the cabin where the Whites spent summe... More

African-American family at home

: 245972 ( http://245972 ) ..Local call number: JJS0962..Title: African-American family at home..Date: ca. 1950..Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 5 x 4 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collec... More

Georgetown Old Stone House, Washington DC

Located on M Street in Georgetown this house was built in 1765, making it the oldest standing building in the District of Columbia. The house was built by Christopher Layman, a cabinetmaker by trade, and served... More

3379 Oak Valley Road (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: This bungalow residence, although probably much later (ca. 1950s ?) than the majority of Johnsontown residences, is in keeping with the scale and character of that community's 20th century, modest... More

Cabin on the hill behind Woody Boggs's cabin. This cabin was moved fr...

As the women cleaning ramps in the "ramp circle" on Drews Creek made clear (see ramp essay), you can start your own ramp patch from the small rootlets leftover from the cleaning process. Many domesticated ramp ... More

Buck Gregory's house on Shumate's Branch

Daffy Bonds' house on Shumate's Branch

Rick Bradford of Edwight, West Virginia, took photographs of homes on Shumate's Branch just before they were torn down to build a slurry impoundment. Dave Bailey describes the houses, their inhabitants, and the... More

Clyde Bonds, at Daffy Bonds' house on Shumate's Branch

Event: Visit to Homes on Shumate's Branch Prior to Evacuation in Preparation for Slurry Impoundment. Rick Bradford of Edwight, West Virginia, took photographs of homes on Shumate's Branch just before they were ... More

James Clay's house on Shumate's Branch

Event: Visit to Homes on Shumate's Branch Prior to Evacuation in Preparation for Slurry Impoundment. Rick Bradford of Edwight, West Virginia, took photographs of homes on Shumate's Branch just before they were ... More

Coal river. Arlie Clay's house, Shumate's Branch. Southern West Virgin...

Event: Visit to Homes on Shumate's Branch Prior to Evacuation in Preparation for Slurry Impoundment. Rick Bradford of Edwight, West Virginia, took photographs of homes on Shumate's Branch just before they were ... More

The house of Denver Collins, Shumate's Branch

Event: Visit to Homes on Shumate's Branch Prior to Evacuation in Preparation for Slurry Impoundment. Rick Bradford of Edwight, West Virginia, took photographs of homes on Shumate's Branch just before they were ... More

The Rebecca Chapel at the mouth of Rock Creek

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Rebecca Chapel at the mouth of Rock Creek

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The Rebecca Chapel at the mouth of Rock Creek

Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Flynn's home, the house of his grandfather, John Rorrer

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photos of John Flynn's home, the house of his grandfather, John Rorrer

Event: A visit to John Flynn's homeplace. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: exterior of cellar or spring hou...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: former family residence in the ...

Dennis Dickens lives on Williams' Branch of Peachtree Creek. Williams' Branch is named for Dennis Dickens' grandfather. William was the son of John Dickens, who was the son of Thomas Dickens, who obtained a dee... More

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: cellar interior, wall of canned...

Dennis Dickens lives on Williams' Branch of Peachtree Creek. Williams' Branch is named for Dennis Dickens' grandfather. William was the son of John Dickens, who was the son of Thomas Dickens, who obtained a dee... More

Justin climbing into a tree house located over the creek near his home

Event: Visit to Walker home. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exterior, home of Carol and Denny Christian

Event: Interview with Carol and Denny Christian. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Justin sitting in a tree house located over the creek near his home

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coal river. American Folklife Center: Spring house. Southern West Virg...

Event: Mixed Mesophytic Forest Topography in Spring. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: well with former family residen...

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: exterior of cellar or spring hou...

Dennis Dickens lives on Williams' Branch of Peachtree Creek. Williams' Branch is named for Dennis Dickens' grandfather. William was the son of John Dickens, who was the son of Thomas Dickens, who obtained a dee... More

Cobby Dillon's cabin, built of chestnut logs in the early 1900s

Event: Scenes around Coal River. Cabin was built by Elsie (Williams) Rich's father in Pettus, West Virginia. Cobby Dillon moved the logs to Naoma and reconstructed the cabin on this site, across Route 3 from Sy... More

Aerial view of Ben Burnside's place, showing garden with fodder shocks...

Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: cellar interior, wall of canned...

Dennis Dickens lives on Williams' Branch of Peachtree Creek. Williams' Branch is named for Dennis Dickens' grandfather. William was the son of John Dickens, who was the son of Thomas Dickens, who obtained a dee... More

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: cellar interior, back wall wit...

Cobby Dillon's cabin, built of chestnut logs in the early 1900s

Event: Scenes around Coal River. Cabin was built by Elsie (Williams) Rich's father in Pettus, West Virginia. Cobby Dillon moved the logs to Naoma and reconstructed the cabin on this site, across Route 3 from Sy... More

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: rear of chestnut smoke house wi...

Dennis Dickens lives on Williams' Branch of Peachtree Creek. Williams' Branch is named for Dennis Dickens' grandfather. William was the son of John Dickens, who was the son of Thomas Dickens, who obtained a dee... More

Aerial view of Ben Burnside's place, showing garden with fodder shocks...

Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exterior, home of Kenny and Martha Pettry

Event: A visit with Kenny and Martha Pettry. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cobby Dillon's cabin, built of chestnut logs in the early 1900s

Event: Scenes around Coal River. Cabin was built by Elsie (Williams) Rich's father in Pettus, West Virginia. Cobby Dillon moved the logs to Naoma and reconstructed the cabin on this site.

Outbuildings on the Dickens property: saddle-notched log barn

Event: Tour of Dennis and Ruby Dickens' Farm. "Dennis Dickens lives on Williams' Branch of Peachtree Creek. Williams' Branch is named for Dennis Dickens' grandfather. William was the son of John Dickens, who wa... More

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Violin on the wall of Woody Boggs's log house. This violin belonged t...

Joe Pettry, who lived on Shumate's Branch with his wife Ann (daughter of Jim and Margaret Bailey, from Bailey Mountain), was an acclaimed fiddler. Dave Bailey reminisces about Joe Pettry as farmer and musician ... More

Exterior, left side, of a trailer converted into a house with an addit...

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Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs. Front porch with old saw ...

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Coal river. Corn crib on Bailey Mountain. Southern West Virginia.

"Please note that the "date" in this case refers to the date that the historic photos were copied. Bailey Mountain is now known as Montcoal Mountain."

Exterior of log house built by Woody Boggs

The oak timbers used to make this log cabin were salvaged from the former bridge to Edwight, which spanned Coal river near the mouth of Hazy Creek for many decades. "A lot of trucks have driven over this house,... More

Log cabin playhouses built by Ivan Jarrell's nephews on Rock Creek

We visited Ivan Jarrell's property at the head of Dry Creek in early spring, when the coves were coming to life with wildflowers, greening trees, and blooming dogwoods, redbuds, spicebush, and the songs of bird... More