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Metzer, Joseph Allen And Amy Y. Taylor (Fa 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Metzer, Joseph Allen And Amy Y. Taylor (Fa 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 163. Paper (25 p.) entitled "I-House at 1311 Clay Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky" by Western Kentucky University students Metzer and Taylor for a vernacular architecture class.
The Altered Mobile Home: A Stationary Image Of Work And Value, Gregory Kendall Jenkins
The Altered Mobile Home: A Stationary Image Of Work And Value, Gregory Kendall Jenkins
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
As the medium cost of conventional housing rises, many people unable to incur such an expense look for alternative forms of adequate housing. In rural areas surrounding Bowling Green, Kentucky, several families have utilized the mobile home as a base to expand, embellish, and personalize, creating a larger more conventional-looking home. Many of these altered homes possess gabled roofs, rock exterior walls, and expansive interior space. Of primary concern is: why have these families undertaken a project of this nature?
As material culture scholars and folklorists examine our built environment, they find relationship between construction and the builders. What can …