Log Construction: In The Ohio Country, 1750-1850 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780821410356)

Log construction entered the Ohio territory with the seventeenth-century fur traders and mid-eighteenth-century squatters and then spread throughout most of the area after the opening of the territory in the 1780s. Scottish-Irish and German settlers, using techniques from the eastern states and European homelands, found the abundant timber resources of the Ohio country ideally suited to this simple, durable form of construction. Hutslar documents this early architecture with extensive descriptive materials from local histories, diaries, traveller's accounts, building contracts and many recent site photographs. These descriptions will be interesting for modern craftsmen and other builders involved in historic restoration or log construction generally.

Hutslar's extensive fieldwork is valuable to students of vernacular architecture and preservationists and this abridged paperback edition of his book is a boon to travelling or local history buffs who can refer to this wealth of information at their leisure.

Author: Donald A. Hutslar
ISBN-10: 0821410350
ISBN-13: 9780821410356
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1992
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.55w x 0.73d