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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
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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 …