Texas Log Buildings
240 pages, 7 x 9 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:30 Nov 1994
ISBN:9780292780514
Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.
So well written that it will appeal not only to folklorists and architectural historians but also to anyone who has ever stopped the car on a Sunday afternoon and walked across a pasture to look at an old house.
What is undoubtedly one of the most important books in recent years on Old West architecture . . . will cause many a reader to dream of owning his or her own log cabin far from the bustle of civilization.
. . . will bring a new awareness of a vanishing type of architecture and a fresh appreciation of the surviving log structures.
The late Terry G. Jordan held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas in the geography department at the University of Texas at Austin.
Preface to the Second Paperback PrintingAcknowledgments1. A Regional Folk Architecture 2. The Origin & Diffusion of Log Folk Architecture3. Raising a Log Wall4. Corner Notching5. Construction of Floors, Roofs, & Chimneys6. Log Dwelling Types & Floorplans7. Log Public Buildings8. Rural Log Outbuildings9. Texas Log Culture RegionsAppendices1. A List of Texas Restoration Projects Open to the Public That Include Log Structures2. A List of Replicas or Reconstructions of Log Buildings in TexasNotesGlossary of Log Construction Terms Encountered in TexasBibliography Index
