American Material Culture and the Texas Experience: The David B. Warren Symposium, Volume 1

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This volume following the proceedings of the second David B. Warren Symposium opens with a discussion on the ?roots of home” by architect and historian Russell Versaci. The essay journeys across the American South, examining the wide range of architectural styles that developed there during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.Building on Versaci's introduction of the Germanic tradition behind the Texas rock house style, Kenneth Hafertepe delves into a study of these mid-nineteenth-century…