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• Back of the Big House: The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation

  http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse
  On-line version of an exhibition on slave life by George Washington University Professor John Michael Vlach. Photographs and descriptions of slave cabins.

• Death of a Dream

  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses/
  Explores the rise and fall of Midwestern farmhouses, and the literature they inspired. Also examines the cost of advances in agriculture. From PBS.

• Dutch Barn Preservation Society

  http://www.dutchbarns.org/
  A not-for-profit educational organization for the study and preservation of New World Dutch barns. Prints a newsletter twice a year with the latest findings on Dutch barns.

• Hancock Shaker Village

  http://www.hancockshakervillage.org/
  An outdoor history museum of Shaker life in western Massachusetts. Twenty original buildings and historic working farm are used to interpret the life of America's most successful communitarian society.

• Henry Whitfield State Museum

  http://www.cultureandtourism.org/cct/cwp/view.asp?a=2127&q=302248
  Begun in 1639, The Henry Whitfield House, in Guilford, Connecticut, is the oldest remaining house in Connecticut.

• Historic Architecture of Blacksburg, Virginia

  http://spec.lib.vt.edu/bicent/slides/ssintro.htm
  On-line version of a slide show by Gibson Worsham. A text version is available for downloading. Hosted by Special Collections of the University Libraries, Virginia Tech.

• Huguenot Street Historic District, New Paltz, NY

  http://www.hvnet.com/museums/huguenotst/
  A virtual visit to the oldest continuously inhabited street in America with its original houses, from Hudson Valley Network.

• Jualpa Mine Camp Rehabilitation Project -- Historic Structures Report

  http://www.juneau.lib.ak.us/history/Jualpa_Mine/struct.htm
  Structural analysis and rehabilitation of buildings in the Gold Creek area, Alaska, that grew out of a gold rush in the 1880s. Hosted by Juneau Public Library.

• The Vernacular Architecture of Hamilton, New York

  http://www4.colgate.edu/scene/sept1997/architecture.html
  An illustrated description by Colgate College Professor of Art and Art History, Eric Van Schaack.

• Vernacular House Forms in 17th-Century Plymouth Colony

  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jfd3a/Plymouth/folkhouse.htm
  An analysis of evidence from room-by-room probate inventories 1633-1685.

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