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The antebellum time and the close of the 19th hundred years frame an interval of great agricultural development. During this time, farmhouse plans created by rural women and men regularly made an appearance in the flourishing North farm publications. This booklet analyzes these vital indicators of the task patterns, social relationships, and cultural prices of the farm families of the time. Examining several hundred owner-designed strategies, McMurry shows the ingenious ways in which "progressive" rural Americans designed farmhouses commensurate with their visions of a dynamic, reformed rural culture. From designs for efficient work spaces to a concern for self-contained rooms for adolescent children, this attractive account of the advancement of intensifying farmers' homes sheds new light on rural America's work to adjust to major changes brought by industrialization, urbanization, the loan consolidation of capitalist agriculture, and the rise of the consumer society.
