Early nineteenth century construction techniques along Indiana's eastern National Road (1830-1850)
No Thumbnail Available
Authors
Molnar, Katherine J.
Advisor
Spodek, Jonathan C.
Issue Date
2007
Keyword
Degree
Thesis (M.S.H.P.)
Department
Department of Architecture
Other Identifiers
CardCat URL
Abstract
This thesis argues that early nineteenth-century domestic architecture along Indiana's eastern National Road (Wayne, Henry and Hancock Counties) was a product of the available local materials, not a product of cultural influences traveling along the Road. While the first chapter drives in this point, the second and third chapters describe the local materials (builders and carpenters, wood, saw-mills, clay, brickmaking and limestone), and explain construction techniques in a series of case study buildings. The thesis concludes by not only confirming the proposition, but also by making a few conclusions regarding early nineteenth-century construction methods.