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Eastern Iowa's Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures: Including the Amana Colonies - Color Version
Author: Deb Schense
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2006-12-19
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1430302747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally there were approximately 200,000 barns built in Iowa. Now it is estimated that only 60,000 barns remain, with another 1,000 or more barns disappearing from Iowa's landscape annually. This book preserves in print Eastern Iowa's historic barns built from 1839 to 1955 with over 175 photographs from the author's research, the first ever Amana Colonies barn tour, the Johnson County Historical Society barn tour, and the Iowa Barn Foundation's annual barn tour. Eight Iowa counties and 20 rural cities are covered. Former president Hoover was living as a youth five miles from one of the featured octagonal barns when it was built in 1883. This barn's aesthetic beauty is so inspiring that people from other countries come to visit this barn each year to see the unusual bell shaped roof, a suspended staircase, a railway car, and laminated interior ribs. It may be the only barn built with a bell shaped roof and is thought to be the oldest surviving barn built of it's kind in the U. S.
Without Right Angles
Author: Lowell J. Soike
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes catalog of 160 round barns in Iowa.
Historic Barns of Iowa State
Barns Around Iowa
Author: Deb Schense
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781932043440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Luella Hazeltine spent over a decade photographing barns in color. Since then, some are no longer standing, some are restored, and others have new uses. This 6x9" book of 128 pages is in color, county by county.
Harker's Barns
Author: Jim Heynen
Publisher: Bureau Oak Book
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Complementing Harker's photographs are vignettes by poet and writer Jim Heynen. Both whimsical and endearing, each vignette treats barns as organic and intelligent entities, reflecting the living history that can be found inside each rural structure."--BOOK JACKET.
John M. Zielinski's Iowa Barns
Midwest Maize
Author: Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-02-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0252096878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
Iowa Barns Yesterday and Today
Author: Karlene Kingery
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book "takes the reader on a tour of all 99 counties with 800 photos of barns and other buildings, accompanied by stories that portray their diversity, past and present."-- Back cover
Barns of Iowa
Author: Hyatt Moore
Publisher:
Published: 2016-09-21
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781537185279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Swedish immigrant farmers who transplanted themselves to the soils of Iowa contributed to a powerful architectural landscape. The barns they built were designed with a combination of practicality and functionality, as well as an identity of individual family roots. Painter Hyatt Moore joined the passion of the University Park Inn and Suites in Ames, Iowa to pay tribute to these monuments of labor and lumber. With over 100 barns, each painted in its own unique style, then with haiku added by the painter, the book is a delight to any fascinated with barn culture, with Iowa landscapes or a colorful and artistic approach to life in general.
