Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn - The Connected Farm Buildings of New England

A classic work on farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders refreshed with a new introduction.

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn portrays the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders. These buildings stand today as a living expression of rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight, as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book, first published nearly forty years ago, has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America. This latest edition features a new introduction by the author.