Barns Of Wisconsin

Author : Nancy Schumm-Burgess
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560374837
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Barns written by Nancy Schumm-Burgess and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the barns of Wisconsin that includes 107 full-color photographs along with details about the structures.

Author : William H. Tishler
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665715057
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Wisconsin’s Barns written by William H. Tishler and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barns are noble structures that highlight our rural landscape. They remain an enormous source of pride for the people of Wisconsin. Many realize that no other visible human achievement reflects the long relationship they have had with the land. However, little information is available regarding their history and how they were constructed. William H. Tishler, an emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains the process of building these iconic structures in this book with breathtaking photos and drawings. The author highlights the traditions, carpentry skills, and backbreaking labor that have made barns a beloved component of the countryside. He also recaptures the techniques of an ancient form of construction that is rapidly becoming all but forgotten. Based on the author’s decades of teaching and field work and his conversations with elderly barn builders who shared their wealth of knowledge, this book will be treasured by those who enjoy the beauty of rural farms and landscapes, or who want to know more about this important aspect of Wisconsin’s history. It can also serve as a guide to their significance and be useful in helping preserve some of these rural icons for future generations to admire and appreciate.

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205196
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barns of Wisconsin (Revised Edition) written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of his classic book, award-winning author Jerry Apps shares a unique perspective on the great barns of rural Wisconsin. Digging deep as both an enthusiast and a farmer, Apps reaps a story of change: from the earliest pioneer structures to the low steel buildings of modern dairy farms, barns have adapted to meet the needs of each generation. They’ve housed wheat, tobacco, potatoes, and dairy cows, and they display the optimism, ingenuity, hard work, and practicality of the people who tend land and livestock. Featuring more than 100 stunning full-color photographs by Steve Apps, plus dozens of historic images, Barns of Wisconsin illuminates a vanishing way of life. The book explores myriad barn designs—from rectangular to round, from gable roof to gambrel, from fieldstone to wood—always with an eye to the history and craftsmanship of the Norwegians, Germans, Swiss, Finns, and others who built and used them. Barns of Wisconsin captures both the iconic and the unique, including historic and noteworthy barns, and discusses the disappearance of barns from our landscape and preservation efforts to save these important symbols of American agriculture.

Author : Jerold W. Apps
Publisher : Trails Media Group Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780915024148
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barns of Wisconsin written by Jerold W. Apps and published by Trails Media Group Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515276
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barns of Minnesota written by and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota's barns are remarkable testaments to a midwestern way of life, one centered on the land, work, family, ingenuity, and perseverance. Many think of barns as breathtaking landmarks along the byways. Others have their favorite barns--the well-kept, red dairy barn near St. Cloud, the faded horse barn on the way to Faribault. Still others know these structures more intimately: barns are as integral to their lives as family and home. In Barns of Minnesota, photographer Doug Ohman showcases the vast array of these exceptional landmarks, built by hand in wood, stone, brick, or metal and dating back as far as 1880. Where Ohman's photographs capture the beauty of the barn from the outside in, Will Weaver's evocative story illuminates the life of the barn from the inside out. Readers witness the making and breaking of one barn as it plays into the life and sustenance of several generations of one family who settled the land in 1922 and who farmed into the age of agribusiness. Seventy-five stunning color photographs accompanied by Weaver's moving story uplift these beautiful buildings and a way of life on the land that is as strong and proud, as fragile and humble, as the barns among us.

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Trails Books
ISBN 13 : 9780915024483
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barns of Wisconsin written by Jerry Apps and published by Trails Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The barn is a rich reminder of Wisconsin's agricultural past. In this revised edition of an award-winning work, author Jerry Apps provides an informative and moving account of barns across the state. Featured are pencil sketches and stunning watercolors of artist Allen Strang.

Author : Marsha Lee Weisiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813938721
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buildings of Wisconsin written by Marsha Lee Weisiger and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the expertise of more than twenty distinguished contributors and the Historic Preservation Office of the Wisconsin Historical Society, this indispensable guide, illustrated with 300 photographs and 32 maps, surveys all of the state's major architectural styles, including exemplary works by locally important designers and nationally noted architects and a wide rage of building types, periods, and influences. Native American effigy mounds and the turtle-shaped Oneida Nation Elementary School express the rich heritage of Wisconsin's indigenous peoples. German farmhouses and mansions, Scandinavian barns, and ethnic churches and fraternal halls testify to the waves of immigration that shaped the state in the nineteenth century. Industrial buildings, company towns and planned communities, parks and historic districts, and modernist skyscrapers exemplify the progressive spirit that held sway throughout the twentieth century.

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870209353
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the White Pine Was King written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging and lumbering heritage to life.”—Kerry P. Bloedorn, director, Rhinelander Pioneer Park Historical Complex For more than half a century, logging, lumber production, and affiliated enterprises in Wisconsin’s Northwoods provided jobs for tens of thousands of Wisconsinites and wealth for many individuals. The industry cut through the lives of nearly every Wisconsin citizen, from an immigrant lumberjack or camp cook in the Chippewa Valley to a Suamico sawmill operator, an Oshkosh factory worker to a Milwaukee banker. When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging: of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. He explores the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover (most of them doomed to fail), successful reforestation work, and the legacy of the lumber and wood products industries, which continue to fuel the state’s economy. Enhanced with dozens of historic photos, When the White Pine Was King transports readers to the lumber boom era and reveals how the lessons learned in the vast northern forestlands continue to shape the region today.

Author : Karen Grow Horan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eulogy to the Wisconsin Barn written by Karen Grow Horan and published by . This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William H. Tishler
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781665715065
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Wisconsin's Barns written by William H. Tishler and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barns are noble structures that highlight our rural landscape. They remain an enormous source of pride for the people of Wisconsin. Many realize that no other visible human achievement reflects the long relationship they have had with the land. However, little information is available regarding their history and how they were constructed. William H. Tishler, an emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains the process of building these iconic structures in this book with breathtaking photos and drawings. The author highlights the traditions, carpentry skills, and backbreaking labor that have made barns a beloved component of the countryside. He also recaptures the techniques of an ancient form of construction that is rapidly becoming all but forgotten. Based on the author's decades of teaching and field work and his conversations with elderly barn builders who shared their wealth of knowledge, this book will be treasured by those who enjoy the beauty of rural farms and landscapes, or who want to know more about this important aspect of Wisconsin's history. It can also serve as a guide to their significance and be useful in helping preserve some of these rural icons for future generations to admire and appreciate.