Barns of Wisconsin by J. Apps, Jill Weber Dean (Editor), Allen Strang (Illustrator), Bridget M. Matzke (Illustrator), Phill Thill (Designed by)

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In this revised edition of an award-winning work, Jerry Apps provides an informative and moving account of Wisconsin's most hard working structures--its barns. Symbols of optimism, pride and practicality, barns are as diverse as the people who built them. Here Apps describes the exquisite craftsmanship with which the Finns, Norwegians, Germans and other immigrant groups built their pioneer barns. We learn, too, how round and octagonal barns developed, why cupolas and lighting rods were used, and how some of Wisconsin's barns became covered with colorful murals and billboards. Allen Strang's meticulous pencil sketches and eight stunning watercolors illustrate the text.

In a new chapter, Apps describes the nationwide movement to save these historic structures, and tells us how some owners have converted barns to innovative, new uses.

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