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The Paul and Fredriika Geranen Farm near Frederick was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in February 1985 as part of the Architecture of Finnish Settlement thematic record.
Born in Poulanga, Oulu Province, Finland, Paul Geranen came to the United States in 1877 with his wife, Fredriiki Lippo who was born at Utajarvi in Oulu Province.
They went first to work in copper mines in Michigan and later decided to homestead in South Dakota.
The Geranens were members of the original Savo settlement in South Dakota, where Paul opened a store in 1902. The family filed a homestead claim on a different property nearby, then eventually moved here in 1893. They built or moved in the "old house." In 1906, Paul and Frederiika moved to Bryant, and in 1907 to open a general merchandise store in Lake Norden. They rented this farmstead to their son. The "new house" and a new frame sauna building were built in 1916. The previous sauna was an earthen structure. The big barn likely dates to the c.1900-1915 period. The listed property also included garages, granaries, chicken coop, pump, and shed. Paul and Frederiika were eventually buried in Savo Cemetery.
Bucharest, Romania.
The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the first open-air ethnographic museums in the world. opening to the public in 1936. It is an outdoor collection of original buildings showcasing the folk traditions of Romania’s villages and includes churches, farmsteads, houses and windmills from the historic regions of Dobrogea, Moldavia, Oltenia and Transylvania.
The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the first open-air ethnographic museums in the world. opening to the public in 1936. It is an outdoor collection of original buildings showcasing the folk traditions of Romania’s villages and includes churches, farmsteads, houses and windmills from the historic regions of Dobrogea, Moldavia, Oltenia and Transylvania.
The Jacob and Amelia Tuohlno Farm near Lake Norden was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in November 1985 as part of the Architecture of Finnish Settlement thematic resource study. Photographs from nomination, 1985.
The folk vernacular house was built in 1899, the old barn c.1900, a 1901 granary, a c.1914-15 sauna, a 1929 gambrel-roof barn, chicken coops, shed, and outhouses. The Tuohino farm is a well-preserved example of a Finnish farmstead that contains both America vernacular and Finnish folk buildings and shows the blending of these two cultures during the early years of settlement.
In 1893, Jacob Tuohino emigrated from Rantsila, Oulu Province, Finland to Michigan. Two years later, as a single man, he came to Hamlin County. In c.1897, he married Amelia Matson, who was born in the sod house on her family's homestead. In c.1899, they moved onto this farm. Jacob worked for his father-in-law Henry Matson during the day and worked to build their own place in the evenings.
Bucharest, Romania.
The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the first open-air ethnographic museums in the world. opening to the public in 1936. It is an outdoor collection of original buildings showcasing the folk traditions of Romania’s villages and includes churches, farmsteads, houses and windmills from the historic regions of Dobrogea, Moldavia, Oltenia and Transylvania.
Museum of folk architecture and everyday life
The territory of historic Pyrohiv now serves as the location of a 1.5 km² (370 acre) outdoor Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine. Founded in 1969, the museum contains over 300 pieces of folk architecture brought here from all parts of Ukraine and carefully reassembled. The picturesque hill with several windmills is the museum centerpiece and the entire territory of the museum is divided into sectors, each representing the folk architecture and life of a specific Ukrainian region.
Commoner's homes, buildings of small trade, commerce and local administration, and old wooden village churches contain authentic items that represent the everyday lifestyle of Ukrainian villagers and townsfolk. Local volunteers and modern Ukrainian artisans selling their wares dress in old-style clothes and demonstrate the use of authentic everyday items to visitors.
Pyrohiv museum has been accorded the status of State Museum of Ukraine and is affiliated with the Institute of Arts, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.
Bucharest, Romania.
The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the first open-air ethnographic museums in the world. opening to the public in 1936. It is an outdoor collection of original buildings showcasing the folk traditions of Romania’s villages and includes churches, farmsteads, houses and windmills from the historic regions of Dobrogea, Moldavia, Oltenia and Transylvania.
Most of the old peasant houses in my home county are made of cob, a mixture of clay and straw, which can be a nice material, but it requires constant maintenance and clever heating with proper insulation, thus when the inhabitants of these buildings pass away or move out, the houses start quickly deteriorating.
I love this window, its proportions are very nice.
We spent a beautiful and relaxed autumn wekend in a small village with a couple of car club buddies...
The texture I used is Baked from swimmingtheether.
drawing out ideas for boxier floorplans. i'd been really excited about curvier strawbale and cob shapes, but after talking with some builders and architects, I'm now leaning toward post-and-beam or stick-frame construction with blown cellulose, denim, or straw-clay insulation. sounds like this might be not only earth-friendly, but very, very affordable and easy.
i'm finding the boxiness freeing! there's a constraint to it, an economy of materials and labor that you can plan in.
The Jacob and Amelia Tuohlno Farm near Lake Norden was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in November 1985 as part of the Architecture of Finnish Settlement thematic resource study. Photographs from nomination, 1985.
The folk vernacular house was built in 1899, the old barn c.1900, a 1901 granary, a c.1914-15 sauna, a 1929 gambrel-roof barn, chicken coops, shed, and outhouses. The Tuohino farm is a well-preserved example of a Finnish farmstead that contains both America vernacular and Finnish folk buildings and shows the blending of these two cultures during the early years of settlement.
In 1893, Jacob Tuohino emigrated from Rantsila, Oulu Province, Finland to Michigan. Two years later, as a single man, he came to Hamlin County. In c.1897, he married Amelia Matson, who was born in the sod house on her family's homestead. In c.1899, they moved onto this farm. Jacob worked for his father-in-law Henry Matson during the day and worked to build their own place in the evenings.
Orange trim. This style of porch with the concrete block "piers" with topped with tapered wood pillars and a knee wall is very typical of Peoria; I think it's a cross-pollination of traditional Federal/Victorian porch styles with the Prairie style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Since Sullivan and Wright were Chicagoans, you see a surprising amount of Prairie style influences in vernacular and folk buildings in Peoria; I find it very characteristic of the region and I think it's interesting to see such a strong regional influence so late in the manufactured home and national media phase of American folk architecture. #peoria #southpeoria #rainbowhouses #houses #folkarchitecture #prairiestyle #franklloydwright #frontporch #porchlife
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The Herman Chalkrock House is located approximately 3 miles northwest of Tabor, South Dakota. The house is an example of Czech folk architecture in southeastern South Dakota.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Windmill
Bucharest, Romania.
The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the first open-air ethnographic museums in the world. opening to the public in 1936. It is an outdoor collection of original buildings showcasing the folk traditions of Romania’s villages and includes churches, farmsteads, houses and windmills from the historic regions of Dobrogea, Moldavia, Oltenia and Transylvania.
The Wilhelm Moser House-Barn by Java was listed in the National Register of Historic Places under the multiple property inventory of German-Russian Folk Architecture.
Built of rammed-earth construction with exterior board siding, the house-barn is over 87 ft. long and 20 ft. wide. Each of the four bays of the building are interconnected. The kitchen door has a gable-roof vorhausl, insulated with clay. A garage was added in the 1930s. The eastern bay was a barn used for poultry and a shop. The house-barn has two brick chimneys faced in puddled clay. The property also included a barn of stone and puddled clay construction.
Wilhelm Moser's (1865-1934) first wife reportedly died shortly after the house was finished because of the exertion required for the construction. They had immigrated from Russia, through Bremen, in the spring of 1889 with three children. In about 1900, Wilhelm remarried to Elizabeth Aman. The Mosers and many neighbors were Seventh Day Adventist. In the 1930s, the farm was bought by shoemaker Christ Neumiller.
Another photo of Zvedava Ulicka in Jilemnice.
Zvědavá ulička in Jilemnice is an interesting collection of folk architecture typical for Krkonoše region. Most of the houses were built after the fire in 1788. Each of the houses is situated one window axle forward into the street in such a way that the inhabitants can easily see towards the square - that is where the name Zvědavá (i.e. "curious" in English) comes from.
To Nuscha:
In the ancient days, and here I do mean ages ago, like in the 11th or 12th century and before, the churches were just halls without towers, but with these belfries built next to them. Two separate buildings that later were united and became the christian churches as we know them today.
Well, these are just not like that. The story behind this pair is a bit different. This church originates from a county with people of the reformed church. They were persecuted during the religious wars in the 16th century, so they built these wooden belfries, easy to disassemble and hide in emergency...
This one is from about 1580 AD, in another skanzen, the one near Szentendre.
The exif tag lies, this was made with a 35mm/f2 manual focus lens. Gosh, I keep forgetting to change the setting on the camera, when I change lenses frequently...
The texture I used here is Light Charcoal paper from borealnz.
The Mathias Merkwan Rubblestone Barn is located about one mile east of Tabor in Yankton County, South Dakota. It is a rectangular rubblestone structure and a good example of Czech folk architecture in southeastern South Dakota. The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Bucharest, Romania. Note the woven fence.
The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the first open-air ethnographic museums in the world. opening to the public in 1936. It is an outdoor collection of original buildings showcasing the folk traditions of Romania’s villages and includes churches, farmsteads, houses and windmills from the historic regions of Dobrogea, Moldavia, Oltenia and Transylvania.
The Frank Svatos Rubblestone Barn is located near Tabor, Bon Homme County, South Dakota. It is a rectangular rubblestone structure and a good example of Czech folk architecture in southeastern South Dakota. The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The John Frydrych Farmstead consists of 18 structures located on a 16-acre farm site east of the town of Tyndall, Bon Homme County, South Dakota. The barn, built of rubblestone masonry with heavy timber frame construction, is a good example of Czech folk architecture in southeastern South Dakota.
The John Frydrych Farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
I took this picture because of the exuberant gilded Corinthian columns and the Chinese-restaurant-meets-synagogue front windows, but I've found it fascinating to read of the many rumors and possible scandals swirling about the sect. The denomination was founded in Guadalajara, Mexico, by one Eusebio Joaquin, who received a revelation from God that he was the first apostle to walk the earth since the death of Jesus' disciple John who supposedly died about 96 A.D. Eusebio's son Samuel Joaquin, now also an apostle, is presently the head of the church, and spends much of his time at a secluded and heavily guarded ranch the denomination owns near Seguin, Texas.
From the lighting strung about, I'd guess this building would be equally snazzy at night.
Although the group is still mainly based in Mexico, they have a lot of churches in the U.S. now, too. The ones I have seen pictures of look somewhat like this. But the mother church in Guadalajara looks very different, to say the least. (The wikipedia photo is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Templolldm01.jpg )
The Albion Walker Chalkrock House is located near Tabor, Bon Homme County, South Dakota. The house is constructed of chalkrock with an L-shape plan. It is a good example of Czech folk architecture in southeastern South Dakota. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
They made sure the communication links to the heavens is well established :-D
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I have been away from flickr for a week, I spent a few days visiting my mother in my home county. This is the part of Hungary where small villages are most densely built. This one was taken at Szentkozmadombja, an old hamlet with 79 citizens now, including a buddy of mine whom I visited. Wonderful place...
To my contacts:
I'll catch up with your 'streams soon :)
The texture I used here is Light Charcoal paper from borealnz
Bucharest, Romania.
The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the first open-air ethnographic museums in the world. opening to the public in 1936. It is an outdoor collection of original buildings showcasing the folk traditions of Romania’s villages and includes churches, farmsteads, houses and windmills from the historic regions of Dobrogea, Moldavia, Oltenia and Transylvania.
Bucharest, Romania.
The Village Museum in Bucharest is one of the first open-air ethnographic museums in the world. opening to the public in 1936. It is an outdoor collection of original buildings showcasing the folk traditions of Romania’s villages and includes churches, farmsteads, houses and windmills from the historic regions of Dobrogea, Moldavia, Oltenia and Transylvania.