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One Grand Park: Remaking New Hampshire Farms Into Summer Homes, 1870-1930, Lorayne Billings
One Grand Park: Remaking New Hampshire Farms Into Summer Homes, 1870-1930, Lorayne Billings
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
In the late nineteenth century, the growth of industry, western competition, costs, and poor soil caused some New Hampshire farmers to quit the farm, leaving the buildings uninhabited. New Hampshire state officials were not interested in rescuing those farms, but were interested in stemming the negative publicity about abandoned farms. The state legislature passed an act to encourage immigration into the deserted farms, and Nahum Bachelder, secretary of the state board of agriculture, advertised the farms as summer homes for well-heeled urbanites. He eventually received criticism for pursuing self-serving interests and for neglecting official agricultural duties, specifically to the struggling …
Farmhouses That Became Boarding Houses In The Catskill Mountains Of New York State, Virginia Scheer
Farmhouses That Became Boarding Houses In The Catskill Mountains Of New York State, Virginia Scheer
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In this thesis the author uses oral histories to study vernacular architecture, analyzing the changes in the way people in the Catskills have used buildings, specifically farm dwellings, to make a living, first as farmers and then as proprietors of boarding houses. The Catskills region in upstate New York is well known for its dairy farms and also for its resorts, but little has been researched to trace continuities and discrepancies between the rural residents and urban visitors. Boarding on farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showed continuity between the two groups: recent immigrants who lived in …
African American History At Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll
African American History At Colonial Williamsburg, Nicole Carroll
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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J.L.M. Lauwerkis And K.P.C. De Bazel: Architecture And Theosophy, Susan R. Henderson
J.L.M. Lauwerkis And K.P.C. De Bazel: Architecture And Theosophy, Susan R. Henderson
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
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