WVU Libraries: Appalachian Bibliography

Architecture, Historic Buildings, Historic Sites

Allen, Karen Ebert. 1997. “Historic American Engineering Record for the Fayette Station Bridge” [New River Gorge, W.Va.]. In Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 11-12, 1997, Glade Springs Resort, Daniels, West Virginia, 40-47. Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Anderson, Belinda. 2000. “Living in the Quiet Zone” [adjacent mammoth radio telescopes at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, W.Va.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Fall): 50-55.

Anderson, Colleen. 2001. “Visiting Historic Malden” [listed on the National Register of Historic Places]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 40-41.

Architecture in Appalachia: Articles, Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Reviews. 1999. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 1-44.

Austin, Peter. 1997. “The Work of Rafael Guastavino in Western North Carolina” [vaulting in Biltmore House and Basilica of St. Lawrence]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 63-79. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Binnicker, Margaret Duncan. 2000. “A Garden City in Appalachia Tennessee: Grosvenor Atterbury’s Design for Erwin” [Unicoi Co., 1916; designed for CC&O Railway]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 59 (Fall): 274-289.

Bishir, Catherine W., Michael T. Southern, and Jennifer F. Martin. 1999. A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina [1200 buildings; 370 photos]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 488 pp.

Brunk, Andrew James. 1997. “Robert Duncanson’s View of Asheville, North Carolina, 1850" [free black artist; earliest known painting of Asheville]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 114-123. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Carlisle, Fred. 2004. “The Past in the Present: The Greater Newport Rural Historic District” [Giles Co., Va.; 34 square miles; community action project]. Appalachian Journal 32 (Fall): 50-66.

Chambers, S. Allen. 2004. Buildings of West Virginia [architectural guidebook; 1000 entries, 375 photographs, 60 maps]. Buildings of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. 663 pp.

Coleman, Ralph S. 1999. “Black Iron Tongue” [trailer home opinion]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 34-35.

Cox, Joyce, and W. Eugene Cox, comps. and eds. 2001. History of Washington County, Tennessee [250 years; reference text; winner of American Association of State and Local History’s Award of Merit, 2002]. Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press. 1,290 pp.

Dart, Susan. 1997. The Old Home Place [Polk Co., N.C.; John Hiram Johnson House; listed in National Register of Historic Places]. Louisville, Ky.: Chicago Spectrum Press. 101 pp.

Dempsey, Sarah. 2001. “Norton House: Malden’s Best-Kept Secret” [historic 1840 house in Kanawha Valley]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 37-39.

Dickinson , W. Calvin, Michael E. Birdwell, and Homer D. Kemp. 2002. Upper Cumberland Historic Architecture [eight-county region above Carthage]. Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press. 148 pp.

Dickinson , W. Calvin. 2004. “Sheltering the People: Folk Architecture in the Upper Cumberland Region” [ Ky., Tenn.]. In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 35-48. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Emrick, Michael. 1996. “ Blount Mansion: Architectural Analysis and the Reinterpretation of a Tennessee Landmark” [built 1792; Gov. William Blount; Knoxville]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 55 (Winter): 310-319.

Ensminger, Robert F. 2003 [1992]. The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America [maps, figures, photos]. Second edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 348 pp.

Fanslow, Mary. 2003. “From Timbering to Tourism: The Wonderland Hotel’s Early Years” [ Tenn. mountains; early 20 th-century; new lumber wealth; class hierarchy]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Fall): 433-449.

Faulkner, Charles H. 2000. “ Knoxville and the Southern Appalachian Frontier: An Archaeological Perspective” [four 18 th-century homes]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 59 (Fall): 158-173.

Gorman, Michelle. 1999. “Turning Trash into Treasure: Recycling from a Waste Stream Builds a House” [Athens Co., Ohio]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 18-22.

Griffith, Clay. 2001. “An Inventory of Douglas Ellington’s Architectural Work in Western North Carolina” [ Asheville; b. 1886]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 91-119. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Harris, Frances Katherine Parr. 1999. “West Virginia Homeplaces: A Study of Architectural Resources in the Appalachian Corridor H Project Area” [federal highway; historic preservation]. M.H.P. thesis, University of Georgia. 94 pp. Masters Abstracts International 37: 1344.

Harvey, Jeffrey. 2002. “Fidler’s Mill: Rediscovering an Upshur County Landmark.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Summer): 18-23.

Hill , David . Interview by Jane Harris Woodside. 1999. “Reading the Landscape: An Interview with David Hill” [landscape architect]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 23-26.

Historic West Virginia Jail Spared from Wrecking Ball [Charles Town, W.Va.; trial site for 1920s Mine Wars and abolitionist John Brown (1859)]. 2001. United Mine Workers Journal 112 (March-April): 23.

Hornyak, Deanna. 1996. "Arthurdale: Homesteading in West Virginia." [New Deal subsistence community] Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 13 (Summer): 25-30.

Howell, Benita J. 2001. “ Rugby, Tennessee’s Master Planner: Franklin Webster Smith of Boston” [1880s Utopian experiment]. Journal of East Tennessee History 73: 23-38.

Howell, Benita J., and Susan E. Neff. 2002. “Victorian Environmental Planning in Rugby, Tennessee: A Blueprint for the Future” [Morgan Co., Tenn.; Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area]. In Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South, ed. B. Howell, 170-181. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Huddleston, Eugene, and Adelaide Ballou. 1997. “The New River and the American Landscape Tradition: Part II” [ W.Va.; survey of historic landscape paintings]. In Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 11-12, 1997, Glade Springs Resort, Daniels, West Virginia, 110-119. Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Hughes, Delos D. 2001. “The Housing Ideal at Cumberland Homesteads” [1930s Crossville, Tenn.; New Deal program to create subsistence homestead community; (cf. Arthurdale, W.Va. project)]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Spring): 38-53.

Humes, Harry. 1997. “The Girard Theater” [ Girardville, Pa]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Winter): 19.

Johnson, Bruce E. 1997. “Built Without an Architect: Architectural Inspirations for the Grove Park Inn” [1912; Asheville; using native fieldstone]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 214-227. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Johnson, Mary. 1997. “An ‘Ever Present Bone of Contention’: The Heyward Shepherd Memorial” [to the first victim of John Brown’s raiders, a free black, 1859, Harpers Ferry, W.Va.; dedicated 1931 by The United Daughters of the Confederacy and The Sons of Confederate Veterans]. West Virginia History 56: 1-26.

Johnson, Rody. 2000. “Old Sweet Springs: A Lewis Family Legacy” [Monroe Co. mineral springs resort; founded 1790; Grand Hotel built 1835]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Summer): 60-65.

Jones, Robbie D. 1997. The Historic Architecture of Sevier County, Tennessee. Sevierville, Tenn.: Smoky Mountain Historical Society. 408 pp.

Jourdan, Katherine M. 2000. Historic West Virginia: The National Register of Historic Places [805 locations]. Charleston, W.Va.: Division of Culture and History, State Historic Preservation Office. 156 pp.

Jourdan, Katherine M., ed. 2000. Historic West Virginia: The National Register of Historic Places [descriptions; by county]. Charleston, W.Va.: Division of Culture and History, State Historic Preservation Office. 156 pp.

Kapsch, Robert J. 2000. “Benjamin Wright and the Design and Construction of the Monocacy Aqueduct” [ Va.; C&O Canal]. In Canal History and Technology Proceedings 19: 181-222. Easton, Pa.: Canal History and Technology Press.

Kemp, Emory L., and Beverly B. Fluty. 1999. The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial History [ W.Va.; landmark structure completed 1859]. Charleston, W.Va.: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. 82 pp.

Kemp-Rye, Mark. 1999. “Saved-Again!: Restoring the Barrackville Covered Bridge” [built 1853]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 56-61.

McCleary, Ann E. 2000. “Forging a Regional Identity: Development of Rural Vernacular Architecture in the Central Shenandoah Valley, 1790-1850.” In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 92-110. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

McGehee, Margaret. 1998. “A Castle in the Wilderness: Rugby Colony, Tennessee, 1880-1887.” Journal of East Tennessee History 70: 62-89.

Milbauer, John A. 1996/97. “Pennsylvania Extended in the Cherokee Country: A Study of Log Architecture” [transplanted to Oklahoma]. Pennsylvania Folklife 46 (Winter): 92-101.

Miller, Larry L. 2001. Tennessee Place-Names [1900 entries]. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 248 pp.

Milnes, Gerald. 1998. “The Barns of Pendleton County.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Spring): 50-55.

Morningstar, William. 2000. “Kentucky Phantoms: A Road Trip” [10 photos of dilapidated buildings, from an exhibition]. Appalachian Heritage 28 (Winter): 8-12.

Muller, Edward K., Ronald C. Carlisle, et al. 1994. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. America's Industrial Heritage Project. Washington, D.C.: GPO. 399 pp.

Noblitt, Philip T. 1996. A Mansion in the Mountains: The Story of Moses & Bertha Cone & Their Blowing Rock Manor. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers, Inc. 207 pp.

Patteson, Stuart. 2004. “A Brave New Deal World: The Cumberland Homesteads” [1930s experimental resettlement subsistence community, Crossville, Tenn.]. In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 196-210. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Phillips, Laura A. W., and Deborah Thompson. 1998. Transylvania: The Architectural History of a Mountain County [N.C.]. Raleigh, N.C.: Transylvania County Joint Historic Preservation Commission in association with Marblehead Publishing. 336 pp.

Plowden, Kate. 2001. “Karl Bittner’s Sculptural Work at Biltmore” [Asheville; 1890s]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 343-361. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Prince, Jeanie. 2002. “Back to the Future: Huntington’s Heritage Farm Museum.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Summer): 44-49.

Raitz, Karl, ed.; George F. Thompson, project director and director of photography; cartography by Gyula Pauer. 1996. The National Road. [Cumberland Road] The Road and American Culture, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 489 pp.

Raitz, Karl, ed.; George F. Thompson, project director and director of photography; cartography by Gyula Pauer. 1996. A Guide to the National Road. [Cumberland Road] The Road and American Culture, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Ralston, Jeannie. 1996. "Bark Grinders and Fly Minders Tell a Tale of Appalachia." [Museum of Appalachia, Norris, Tenn.] Smithsonian 26 (February): 44-50, 52-53.

Richardson, Jerry. 1999. “Renovation: From Linoleum to Congoleum: A Memoir” [Lynch, Ky.; privatized coal company-town houses]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 27-29.

Ridner, Judith. 2000. “Status, Culture, and the Structural World in the Valley of Pennsylvania” [Carlisle, Pa.]. In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 77-91. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Roberts, Katherine. 2004. “Ritchie County Cellar Houses” [19 th century, hand-cut stone foundations, built into hillsides, used for cold food-storage]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Fall): 40-45.

Robertson, Blanche R. 1997. “The Waterpowered Mills of Reems Creek” [profiles ten mills]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 82-96. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Rybczynski, Witold. 1999. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century [biography; landscape architect of the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N.C.]. New York: Scribner. 480 pp.

Shackel, Paul A. 2000. Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park [Harpers Ferry, W.Va.]. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology series. New York: Plenum. 191 pp.

Shaluta, Steve, Jr. 2004. Covered Bridges in West Virginia [color photographs of 17 remaining bridges]. Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press. Unpaged.

Spence, Joe E., and George R. Kiley, eds. 1997. Landmarks of Loudon County: Its History through Architecture [Tenn.]. Gloucester Point, Va.: Hallmark Publishing Co. 176 pp.

Stewart, Doug. 1997. “Saving American Steel” [preserving silent mills as museums]. Smithsonian 28 (August): 84-93.

Stipes, R. Jay, and Karen B. Stipes. 2000. “Witness Trees of the New River Region in Virginia” [centuries-old landmark trees]. In Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 15-16, 1999, Boone, North Carolina, 42-49. Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Tate, Bryan. 2002. “Appalachian Pioneers and Log Houses” [Sullivan Co., Tenn.]. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 48 (June): 1-18.

Tate, Bryan. 2002. “Sullivan County Log Homes” [East Tenn.; 1779-1840 settlement patterns; house types: single-pen, double-pen, saddlebag, dogtrot, and I-houses]. Material Culture 34, no. 2: 41-53.

Turnquist, Gary M. 2000. “Historic Preservation in a New River Valley Community: Grassy Creek, North Carolina” [added to National Register of Historic Places, 1976]. In Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 15-16, 1999, Boone, North Carolina, 78-86. Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Turpen, James. 2002. “Tallulah Falls Township according to Local Historian James Turpen” [Ga.]. Interview by Samantha Tyler. Foxfire Magazine 36 (Fall/Winter): 126-139.

Vivian, Daniel J. 2001. “Public Architecture, Civic Aspirations and the Price of ‘Progress’: A History of the Buncombe County Courthouse.” In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 154-177. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Watkins, Charles Alan, and Elizabeth Lawson. 1999. “Invershiel: A New Old World in the Blue Ridge Mountains” [Linville, N.C.; 1960s Scottish-motif planned village]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 3-8.

Wesolowsky, Tony. 1996. "A Jewel in the Crown of Old King Coal: Eckley Miners' Village." [recreated anthracite community; Luzerne County, Pa.] Pennsylvania Heritage 22 (Winter): 30-37.

West, Carroll Van. 1995. Tennessee's Historic Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 503 pp.

West, Carroll Van. 2001. Tennessee’s New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook [250 historic sites]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 281 pp.

White, Warren H. 2003. Covered Bridges in the Southeastern United States: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 214 pp.

Williams, Michael Ann. 2004 [1991]. Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina. Reprint. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Originally published, Athens: University of Georgia Press. 190 pp.

Woodside, Jane Harris. 1996. "Looking for Main Street America." [West Virginia University's involvement in documenting construction of the Cumberland Road]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 13 (Spring): 9-14.

Zaunders, Bo. 2004. The Great Bridge-Building Contest [children’s literature; 1850 (West) Virginia; Lemuel Chenoweth’s renowned covered bridge in Philippi]. Illustrated by Roxie Munro. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 32 pp.

Zuchowski, Dave. 1999. “The House with No Square Corners” [Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Kentuck Knob”; Laurel Highlands, Pa.]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Spring): 14-17.