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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Searching for authenticity
    sub title: rustic architecture in America, 1877-1940
  name:
    name part: Ford, Edward R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 502 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 25 cm.
  abstract: Rustic Architecture in America, 1887-1940 is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture that emerged in the Adirondacks and the national parks between 1890 and 1935. It is a history of how both form and technology of construction were determined by the tourist industry and the railroads who built the buildings and the social and environmental damage caused by the larger process of which they were a part. Many of these buildings were constructional shams driven by romantic pretenses, but there is also in the best of this architecture something truly original. It is also a history of how the rustic aesthetic transcended glib, mythic romanticism to produce a truly original architecture, how the unique conditions of the West merged craft with the industrial, of how its designers drew on the landscape of the West in combination with the European traditions of the rustic to create an original architecture and a unique way of building. Forty buildings are examined in detail. The text and the numerous original drawings unfold the story how the work was actually constructed in relation to its many enduring myths.
  note: Edward R. Ford.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Log buildings
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Log buildings
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Decoration and ornament, Rustic
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Decoration and ornament, Rustic
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: NA710 .F67 2025
  classification: 720.97309034
  identifier: 1957183942
  identifier: 9781957183947
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240407
    record change date: 20251124211401.7
    record identifier: in00005669478