Description: 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.
Price: 22 USD
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
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Publication Name: Wisconsin Historical Society
Edition: 3
Book Title: Barns of Wisconsin (Revised Edition)
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Topic: United States / 19th Century, General, Agriculture / General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2010
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, History
Item Weight: 34.1 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Jerry Apps
Item Width: 8 in
Book Series: Places Along the Way Ser.
Format: Hardcover
