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Finding Aid for the Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse Collection of Cantilever Barn Research, 1850-1993


MS-2059

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Erin Lawrimore, September 20, 2006

Summary Information
Title: Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse Collection of Cantilever Barn Research

Date/Date Range :    1850-1993

Extent: 4.5 linear feet

Abstract:
The Cantilever Barn Collection spans the years 1850 to 1993 with the bulk of the material from the 1980's. The collection primarily consists of personal correspondence, field research data, and other relevant materials collected by University of Tennessee Architecture professors Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse. The material of this collection was mostly used in their coauthored 1993 publication, East Tennessee Cantilever Barns and also their 1984 catalogue, The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee.

Call number: MS-2059

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
The collection was a gift from Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse Collection of Cantilever Barn Research, MS-2059. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

This collection is divided into seven series:

  1. Series I: Book Publishing Materials
  2. Series II: Maps
  3. Series III: Census Data
  4. Series IV: Publications and Photocopied Material
  5. Series V: Barn Data, Charts, and Research Materials
  6. Series VI: Correspondence
  7. Series VII: Historical and Genealogical Data

Biography / History

Marian Moffett is a professor of Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her major research concentrations have been in the architectural history of vernacular buildings in East Tennessee, such as barns and churches, and also the architecture of TVA's dams, bridges, and steam plants. Marian Moffett received her undergraduate's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1971 and her master's and doctoral degrees in 1973 and 1975 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville since 1975. Mrs. Moffett coauthored two books with Lawrence Wodehouse, The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee, and also Built for the People of the United States: Fifty Years of TVA Architecture.

Lawrence Wodehouse was an Architecture professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1979 to 1993. Wodehouse worked as a professor of Architecture at the Pratt Institute in New York prior to coming to the University of Tennessee. Lawrence Wodehouse received his master's degree from Cornell in 1963 and his Ph.D. from St. Andrews University in 1980. His major research concentrations have been in 19th and 20th century architecture and also the vernacular architecture of East Tennessee. He has coauthored two books with Marian Moffett, The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee, and also Built for the People of the United States: Fifty Years of TVA Architecture. Lawrence Wodehouse retired in the Spring of 1993 and currently resides in Norwich, England.


Collection Scope and Content Note

The Cantilever Barn Collection spans the years 1850 to 1993, with the bulk of the material from the 1980's. The collection primarily consists of personal correspondence, field research data, and other relevant materials collected by the University of Tennessee Architecture professors Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse; who started their research on cantilever barns in East Tennessee in 1984. The material of this collection was mostly used in their 1993 University of Tennessee publication, East Tennessee Cantilever Barns and also in their 1984 catalog, The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee

Subject Terms

  • Barns -- Tennessee.
  • Cantilever Barns -- Tennessee -- Blount County -- Design and construction.
  • Cantilever Barns - Tennessee - Sevier County - Design and construction.
  • Cantilever Barns - Design and construction.
Contents List
   

Series I: Book Publication Materials
Box   1     Folder   1    
Copyright Registration Certificate and font/type setup, 5 July 1984
Box   1     Folder   2    
Extra barn survey sheets
Box   1     Folder   3    
Computer designed barn drawings
Box   1     Folder   4    
Locations of research materials used in the Special Collections library
Box   1     Folder   5    
Model Theory projects by Son Sang Kong and Linda Nathurst for Structures 2314 (c. 1986)
Box   1     Folder   6    
Miscellaneous barn drawings and pictures
Box   1     Folder   7    
Master template for barn survey sheet
Box   1     Folder   8    
Photos of Cantilever barns
Box   1     Folder   9    
Book reviews
Box   1     Folder   10    
Purchase orders and invoices
Box   1     Folder   11    
Miscellaneous notes and cards
Box   1     Folder   12    
Secondary sources bibliography
Box   1     Folder   13    
Bibliography for Cantilever barn studies
Box   1     Folder   14    
Bibliography and notes for Cantilever barn studies
Box   1     Folder   15    
Miscellaneous notes
Box   1     Folder   16    
Blue office phone messages -- "While You Were Out"

Box   1     Folder   17    
Addresses list -- the National Heritage Alliance
   

Series II: Maps
Box   1     Folder   18    
1985 map of Sevier County showing Cantilever barn locations

Box   1     Folder   19    
Miscellaneous topographical map copies
Box   1     Folder   20    
Miscellaneous county and topographical maps
Box   1     Folder   21    
Jones Cove quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   22    
Gatlinburg quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   23    
Meadow quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   24    
Map of Knox County showing the location of Cantilever barns
Box   1     Folder   25    
Map showing the locations of barns found through November 1985
Box   1     Folder   26    
Map and chart showing the location of Sevier County Cantilever Barns
Box   1     Folder   27    
Calderwood quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   28    
Boyds Creek quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   29    
Cades Cove topographical quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   30    
Concord quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   31    
Chestnut Hill quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   32    
Mount Guyot quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   33    
Shooks Gap quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   34    
Shady Grove quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   35    
New Market quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   36    
Mascot quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   37    
Douglas Dam quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   38    
Thunderhead Mountain quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   39    
Kinzel Springs quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   40    
Wear Cove quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   41    
Blockhouse quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   42    
Binfield quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   43    
Louisville quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   44    
Wildwood quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   45    
Maryville quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   46    
Tallassee quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   47    
Vonore quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   48    
Walden Creek quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   49    
Mount Le Conte quadrangle topographical map
Box   1     Folder   50    
Large Tennessee county maps (items in oversize section of the library)
Box   1     Folder   51    
Large North Carolina county maps (item in oversize section of the library)
   

Series III: Census Data
Box   1     Folder   52    
Agriculture census data: Sevier County, 1880 (rolled)
Box   1     Folder   53    
Tennessee census notes
Box   1     Folder   54    
Agriculture census data: Sevier County, 1850
Box   1     Folder   55    
Miscellaneous agriculture census data
Box   1     Folder   56    
Middle Creek census data
Box   1     Folder   57    
Tennessee agriculture census data for 1880
Box   1     Folder   58    
Sevier County population statistics, 1790-1890
   

Series IV: Publications and Photocopies Articles
Box   2     Folder   1    
The Double Crib Barn in Southern Central Pennsylvania, by Henry Glassie (photocopied excerpt)
Box   2     Folder   2    
Tennessee, The Land Where God Has Set His Seal, by W. Crawford (notes)
Box   2     Folder   3    
Concentric Growth Rings Unlock the Past, by James S. Trefil (magazine clipping)
Box   2     Folder   4    
"Sketches of South Georgia Folklife" - Library of Congress Publication (c) 1977
Box   2     Folder   5    
Bulletin of Farms and Residences for Sale in Tennessee, by The Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture. January 1, 1882 and July 31, 1883
Box   2     Folder   6    
A Forebay Barn in Texas, by Terry G. Jordan (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   7    
American Agriculturist, August 1873 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   8    
The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, by John C. Campbell (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   9    
The Power of Things: Recent Studies in American Vernacular Architecture, by Dell Upton. Taken from American Quarterly 35/3 p. 262-278 (c) 1983 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   10    
The Double Crib Barns of Calhoun County, by H. Wayne Price. Taken from Journal of the Illinois Historical Society, Summer 1980 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   11    
The Log Cabin, by Alex W. Bealer (photocopied book)
Box   2     Folder   12    
American Log Buildings, by Terry G. Jordan, 1985 UNCP (notes)
Box   2     Folder   13    
APT Bulletin. From 1983 Volume XV, Number 3 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   14    
Facts about Sevier County, by W.L. Duggan c. 1910 (notes)
Box   2     Folder   15    
The Pennsylvania Barn in the South, by Henry Glassie (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   16    
Resources of Tennessee #78 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   17    
The Tennessee Handbook and Immigrant's Guide, by Herman Bookum c. 1868 (notes)
Box   2     Folder   18    
Land and Family: A Historical View of Pre-industrial Appalachian, by Ronald D. Eller. From Appalachian Journal (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   19    
A Search for the Origin of the Pennsylvania Barn, by Robert F. Ensminger (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   20    
Excursion through the Slave States, by George William Fetherstonhaugh c. 1844 (notes)
Box   2     Folder   21    
History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860, by Lewis C. Gray (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   22    
The Old Barns of Appalachia, from Mountain and Life Work, Summer 1965. Volume 40:2, p. 21-30 (photocopy)

Box   2     Folder   23    
Moravian, Scwenkfelder, and American Log Construction, by Terry G. Jordan. From: Pennsylvania Folklife, Volume 33:3
Box   2     Folder   24    
The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee, by Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse (original marked publication) (c) 1984
Box   2     Folder   25    
Bibliography - unknown publication (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   26    
A Cabin Raising at Greenbrier (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   27    
The Once and Future Barn, Newsweek article (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   28    
The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee (abstract)
Box   2     Folder   29    
Mister Appalachia, by Shirley Williams. From The Courier-Journal, September 27, 1984 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   30    
Newspaper article: More than Half of All Known Cantilever Barns found in Sevier County, from The Mountain Press, March 15, 1990 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   31    
Gjolbaschi - Adalia - Elmaly, German excerpt (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   32    
The Ohio Farmstead: Farm Buildings as Cultural Artifacts, from Ohio History, volume 90:3, Summer 1981 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   33    
European Precedent for Cantilever Construction: A Search for Possible Connections to East Tennessee Barns, by Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse.
Box   2     Folder   34    
Empty Folder
Box   2     Folder   35    
The Persistence of Initial Permanent Settlement: The Scotch-Irish and English in Appalachia, by John B. Rehder (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   36    
Settlement and Early History of the Coves of Blount County, Tennessee, by Inez Burns (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   37    
Life as it is, by J.W.M. Breazeale (photocopy and notes)
Box   2     Folder   38    
Tobacco: its Culture in Tennessee, by Killebrew c. 1876 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   39    
The Burley Tobacco Region of the Mountain South, from Economic Geography (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   40    
Blount County Inventory of Historic and Architectural Properties, by The Tennessee Historical Commission (photocopies)
Box   2     Folder   41    
The American Folklore Society Newsletter
Box   2     Folder   42    
Make a Date with a Tree, by Mike Bajllie and Jon Pilcher. From New Scientist, March 17, 1988
Box   2     Folder   43    
Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee, by J.B. Killebrew c. 1874 (notes)
Box   2     Folder   44    
Report on the Culture of Curing Tobacco in the United States, by J.B. Killegrew. c. 1884 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   45    
Tennessee: Its Agriculture Resources and Mineral Wealth, by J.B. Killebrew c. 1874 (notes)
Box   2     Folder   46    
On Corner Timbering, from Pioneer America, Volume 1:1. January 1964 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   47    
The Breaks, Virginia, from Pioneer America, Volume 4:2. July 1972 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   48    
Observations on Cultural Islands in Terms of Tennessee Agriculture, by Walter Kollmogen (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   49    
Sevier County Saga, by Beulah Duggan Linn c. 1976 (notes)
Box   2     Folder   50    
Travels to the Westward of the Allegheny Mountains in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, by F.A. Michaux, MD London c. 1805
Box   2     Folder   51    
The Log Barns of Blount County Tennessee, from: Tennessee / Anthropologist, Volume 9:2 p. 85-103 c. 1984 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   52    
"Smoky Mountain Historical Newsletter," - Volume XI, No. 1, Spring 1985 (original publication)
Box   2     Folder   53    
The Tennessee Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary, by Morris Easting c. 1834 (notes)

Box   2     Folder   54    
Short Sketches of the Counties of Tennessee, by Thomas H. Paine c. 1901 (notes)
Box   2     Folder   55    
This Remarkable Continent, by Rooney, p. 87 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   56    
The Forests of Tennessee: Their Extent, Character, and Distribution, by George B. Sudworth and J.B. Killebrew, c. 1987 (notes)
Box   2     Folder   57    
Seaton Springs Inn Booklet
Box   2     Folder   58    
American Log Buildings, by Terry Jordan (notes and conclusion by author)
Box   2     Folder   59    
Population Growth Chart of East Tennessee Counties, 1820-1980
Box   2     Folder   60    
Statistical chart comparing the farms of Blount and Sevier counties, 1860-1930 (computer printout)
Box   2     Folder   61    
Handwritten notes on termites
Box   2     Folder   62    
List of Tennessee's county historians taken from The Tennessee Department of Conservation
Box   2     Folder   63    
Newspaper article: Barns for All Occasions, from The Dominion Post, September 19, 1983 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   64    
Newspaper article: Log Barns of West Virginia, by Leroy G. Schultz, c. 1983 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   65    
Museum of American Frontier Culture in Stauton, VA (booklet)
Box   2     Folder   66    
Green Sheets from the Directory of the UT Agriculture Campus, October 1983
Box   2     Folder   67    
Sevier County Cemeteries, by The Sevier County Historic Society (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   68    
Article: The Wedderspoon Farm, by Henry Glassie. From The New York Folklore Quarterly (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   69    
Article: The Barns of West Virginia, by Leroy G. Shultz. From Goldenseal, April - September 1978 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   70    
Goldenseal West Virginia Traditional Life, Volume 9:4, Winter 1983 (original publication)
Box   2     Folder   71    
Booklet: Wood-Inhabiting Insects in Houses, by Harry B. Moore, c. 1979 (original publication)
Box   2     Folder   72    
Booklet: Subterranean Termites, Their Prevention and Control in Buildings, USDA, c. 1983 (original publication)
Box   2     Folder   73    
The Termites of the United States, A Handbook, by Frances M. Weesner, c. 1965 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   74    
Termites and Termite Control, University of California Press, c. 1934 (photocopy)
Box   2     Folder   75    
National Building Museum blue prints, c. Summer 1988 (original publication)
Box   2     Folder   76    
Miscellaneous newspaper articles and clippings (photocopies)
   

Series V: Barn Data, Charts, and Research Materials
Box   3     Folder   1    
Barn specs - Anderson County
Box   3     Folder   2    
Barn specs - Blount County
Box   3     Folder   3    
Barn specs - Bradley County
Box   3     Folder   4    
Barn specs - Carter County
Box   3     Folder   5    
Barn specs - Cocke County
Box   3     Folder   6    
Barn specs - Greene County
Box   3     Folder   7    
Barn specs - Hamblen County
Box   3     Folder   8    
Barn specs - Jefferson County
Box   3     Folder   9    
Barn specs - Johnson County
Box   3     Folder   10    
Barn specs - Knox County
Box   3     Folder   11    
Barn specs - Meigs County
Box   3     Folder   12    
Barn specs - North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Switzerland barns
Box   3     Folder   13    
Barn specs - Rhea County
Box   3     Folder   14    
Barn specs - Roane County
Box   3     Folder   15    
Barn specs - Sevier County
Box   3     Folder   16    
Barn specs - Sevier County, Middle Creek barns
Box   3     Folder   17    
Barn specs - Unicoi County
Box   3     Folder   18    
Barn specs - Washington County
Box   3     Folder   19    
Barn specs - Computer printouts of Washington County barn, by THC
Box   3     Folder   20    
Barn specs - Miscellaneous barn specs and notes
Box   3     Folder   21    
Barn specs - Sevier County follow-up
Box   3     Folder   22    
Barn specs - Barn statistical information
Box   3     Folder   23    
Chart: comparative dates of known barn builders in Blount County
Box   3     Folder   24    
Chart: comparative dates of known barn builders in Sevier County
Box   3     Folder   25    
Data spreadsheets on Middle Creek barns, map included
Box   3     Folder   26    
Data spreadsheets on all barns: builder, owner, height, width, location
Box   3     Folder   27    
Computer printed data specifications book on Cantilever barns (located in the oversized materials section of the library)
   

Series VI: Correspondence
Box   3     Folder   28    
Correspondence, 1984
Box   3     Folder   29    
Correspondence, 1985
Box   3     Folder   30    
Correspondence, 1986
Box   3     Folder   31    
Correspondence, 1987
Box   3     Folder   32    
Correspondence, 1988
Box   3     Folder   33    
Correspondence, 1989
Box   3     Folder   34    
Correspondence, 1990
Box   3     Folder   35    
Correspondence, 1991
Box   3     Folder   36    
Correspondence, 1992
Box   3     Folder   37    
Correspondence on termites
Box   3     Folder   38    
Correspondence from Felicia Felder Hoehne
   

Series VII: Historical and Genealogical Data
Box   3     Folder   39    
John Butler - State of Tennessee Land Grant c. 1858 (photocopy)
Box   3     Folder   40    
Issac Trotter papers - Will, Song, and Other Information
Box   3     Folder   41    
McNulty - McMahan papers - Estate sale and other documents
Box   3     Folder   42    
Phillip Roberts papers - Estate sale records
Box   3     Folder   43    
Blount County barn builder information and cemetery records
Box   3     Folder   44    
Miscellaneous barn deteat and genealogical information, census
Box   3     Folder   45    
T.A. Leonard barn - recorded drawings for the Washington State Office of Historic Preservation, c. 1985 (photocopy)
Box   3     Folder   46    
Middle Creek Barn data and genealogical data
Box   3     Folder   47    
Miscellaneous letters and genealogical information on barn builders given by Mrs. Beulah Duggan Lynn of Sevier County
Box   3     Folder   48    
Interview notes from J. Newt Odom conducted September 10, 1987