Selected articles originally presented at the Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Duluth, Minnesota (2002) and Newport Rhode Island (2001).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Smaller urban houses of the North Shore, 1630-1830 / Bernard L. Herman -- Labor and liberty in the age of refinement : gender, class, and the built environment / Marla R. Miller -- The double house in New England / Charles Parrott -- Housing the worker : the anatomy of the New Bedford, Massachusetts, three-decker / Kingston Wm. Heath -- Anglican church building and local context in early Jamaica / Louis P. Nelson -- The myth of agricultural complacency : tobacco barns of St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1790-1890 / Kirk E. Ranzetta -- In the lodge of the chickadee : architecture and cultural resistance on the Crow Indian Reservation, 1884-1920 / Thomas Carter, Edward Chappell, and Timothy McCleary -- "A service machine" : hotel guests and the development of an early-twentieth-century building type / Lisa Pfueller Davidson -- The architecture of New Netherland revisited / Jeroen van den Hurk -- Impermanent architecture in the English colonies of the eastern Caribbean : new contexts for innovation in the early modern Atlantic world / Roger H. Leech -- Rat housing in middle Virginia : the diffusion of everyday life / Travis McDonald -- Paint discoveries in the Aiken-Rhett House kitchen and slave quarters / Susan L. Buck -- At the edge of custom : the training and early architectural career of Thomas R. Blackburn, architect in antebellum Virginia / Bryan Clark Green -- Great Lakes commercial fishing architecture : the endurance and transformation of a region's landscape/waterscape / Michael J. Chiarappa -- The northern Umiak : shelter, boundary, identity / Susan W. Fair -- Reverence and resistance in Lithuanian wayside shrines / Milda Bak?ys Richardson -- Cereal architecture : late-nineteenth-century grain palaces and crop art / Pamela H. Simpson.