Long Distance Implantation of Vernacular Architecture Traditions: The Canadians in Early Louisiana
Edwards JD. 2019. Long Distance Implantation of Vernacular Architecture Traditions: The Canadians in Early Louisiana. Material Culture Review. 88-89:45-78
Abstract: "This study explores the architectural contributions of Canadians to Louisiana in the 18th century. One of the most revealing areas in American architectural history concerns the origins of new vernacular traditions in locations being settled for the first time by Europeans. Between the late 15th and 18th centuries, many settlement experiments occurred along the coastlines of the Atlantic. Yet the dearth of reliable documentation from the earliest years of colonial establishment renders elusive a sound understanding of the factors which shaped these foundational architectural transformations. The result: a lost of understand of the very essence of our American vernacular traditions. This study examines one such case for which a relative abundance of documentation survives - the Canadians in Louisiana. It races the architectural transformations that materialized when Canadians attempted to found a new colony on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the lower Mississippi River Valley, beginning in 1699." Project funding was provided by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P19AF000215).
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- Journal Article
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- Edwards, Jay
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- HPF
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