Content
Welcome
2m 5s
Speaker's Introduction
2m 21s
Introduction
3m 18s
Documentation
32m 19s
Visual Evidence
20m 7s
Announcements / prizes
6m 58s
Questions / answers
10m 47s
About this webinar
Learn how to read the features of a building as a multi-layered story and interpret them in a historical and ethnocultural context. Discover documentation from a wide variety of sources that will bring life and identity to your understanding of your four (or more!) walls. Questions we’ll learn how to answer include: How old is that house? Who built it and who lived there subsequently? Who added that wing in the back? Who did that weird thing to the floor, and why? Examples will focus on early vernacular dwellings from the mid-Atlantic region of the US, but the methods discussed can be applied throughout the United States to buildings of residential, ancillary, commercial, or industrial use.
About the speaker
Tired of asking her mother to explain how she was related to a family member she called “Aunt” (but was actually first cousin once removed to); Jeanie sat down and began building her famil...
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Comments (71)
Some of the information I already knew, but it was good to refresh my mind.
Informative and entertaining, with useful syllabus. Thank you!
It was wonderful.
Very well organized references to aid in researching an old home.
Great info - excited to start researching family homes
Wonderful resources and great presentation!
Extremely interesting and timely as I'm helping a friend learn the history of the building he's currently renovating, reportedly built in the 1850s.
very interesting ways to determine history of house