Economic farmhouses and their architectural problems (1914)
Etherton, William Alonzo · leaf 33
d with there were greatlychanged. Without the forests for material and for shelter from the wind andand sun, the pioneer could not build as he had learned to do in the woods, orcopy from a nearby town as is done today, he was thrown upon his own resources,and of necessity found upon the spot the… … 3 When the forests disappeared under the woodmans ax and the cultivated fieldsbrought a coupetenco to tiio Colonial farmers, the log houses gave way to othersbetter adapted to the altered landscape and to the more settled industrial and so-cial conditions of farm communities, unhampered by…
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