Field Guide to
New England Barns
and
Farm Buildings
Thomas
Durant Visser
The New England barn -- photogenic, full
of character, and framed by flaming autumn foliage -- is an endangered
species. Of some 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly a thousand a year
are lost to fire, collapse, or bulldozers. Thomas Durant Visser's field
guide to the barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns, and
potato houses of New England is an attempt to document not just their structure
but their traditions and innovations before the surviving architectural
evidence of this rich rural heritage is lost forever.
Available April 1997