Resources
Resources and references for log buildings and preservation. Available online links/URls are included where available.
Major Informational Sources
Technical Preservation Services, Preservation Briefs, National Park Service (NPS), https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1739/preservation-briefs.htm
Bealer, A. W., and J. 0. Ellis, 1978, The log cabin; homes of the North American wilderness. NY: Clarkston N. Potter, Inc., A nontechnical look at the log cabin in America, from colonial times to the present. Very well illustrated, https://archive.org/details/logcabinhomesofn0000beal
Beard, D. C., 1914, Shelters, shacks, and shanties. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Contains numerous sketches of log, pole, and timber construction. A very early look at this kind of construction, https://archive.org/details/sheltersshackssh00bear
Fickes, C. P., and W. E. Crolen, 1957 Building with logs. U.S. Forest Service, misc. publication No. 579. A primer for 20th century log cabin construction with excellent line drawings and photos, https://archive.org/details/buildingwithlogs579fick
Jordan, Terry, 1978, Texas log buildings: a folk architecture. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. A look at Texas log cabins and their Germanic origins, as well as a study in methodology, https://archive.org/details/texaslogbuilding0000jord/page/n5/mode/2up
Kniffen, Fred B., 1936 Louisiana house types. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 26:179-193., Important as an informational source for floor-plan terminology, applicable for most of the United States.
Kniffen, F. (1965). Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 55(4), 549–577. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2569440
Kniffen, F., & Glassie, H. (1966). Building in Wood in the Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective. Geographical Review, 56(1), 40–66, Probably the most important brief publication on cabin technology, it attempts to describe and interpret the establishment and westward movement of cabin technology across eastern North America, https://www.jstor.org/stable/212734
Kniffen, F. (2018). On Corner-Timbering. Material Culture, 50(1), 41–46, Descriptions and illustrations of all major notching types, with discussions about their origins, evolution, and relative merits, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44843618
Mackie, B. Allen, 1972 Building with logs. Prince George, B.C.: Hairy Woodpecker Pub. Mostly a "how-to" manual, but provides information on French and Canadian building techniques, https://archive.org/details/buildingwithlogs0000mack
Mackie, B. Allen, 1977 Notches of all kinds. Prince George, B.C.: Hairy Woodpecker Pub. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2459887.Notches_of_All_Kinds
Mackie, B. Allen, 2005, Log Span Tables for Floor Joists, Beams and Roof Support Systems, International Log Builders Association, ISBN 9780963690203 (ISBN10: 0963690205), https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1048810.Log_Span_Tables_for_Floor_Joists_Beams_and_Roof_Support_Systems
Fisette, Paul, 1997, Understanding Loads and Using Span Tables, American Wood Council, https://awc.org/understanding-loads-and-using-span-tables/
American Wood Council, Span Tables for Joists And Rafters 2012 Edition, American Softwood Lumber Standard (PS 20-10) Sizes, https://awc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AWC-SpanTables2012-1111.pdf
International Residential Code - 2018 (IRC), https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IRC2018 and https://codes.iccsafe.org/codes/tennessee
Swanson, William, 1948 Log Cabins. New York: The Macmillan Company, one of the great al inclusive log house building books, https://ia800304.us.archive.org/19/items/WilliamSwansonLogcabins0001/WilliamSwansonLogcabins0001.pdf
Weslager, C. A., 1969 The log cabin in America. Rutgers University Press. One of the most significant and thorough books on the subject: includes history, typology, illustrations, https://archive.org/details/logcabininameric0000wesl
Shedd, Nancy S., 1986, Corner-Post Log Construction, A Report to Early American Industries Association, DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT: To investigate the building techniques, geographical distribution, and construction dates of log structures in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania which employ vertical corner (and medial) posts rather than corner notches and to trace the historical antecedents of this method of construction, https://www.huntingdonhistoryresearchnetwork.net/research-topics/corner-post-log-construction/
Theoretically Valuable Sources
Barnett, Homer, 1953, Innovation – The Basis for Cultural Change, New York: MacGraw Hill. An overlooked but important source in the analysis of change within culture. His theories are very applicable to vernacular architecture, https://archive.org/details/innovationbasiso0000barn
Glassie, Henry, 1968, Pattern in the material folk culture of the eastern United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Defines and examines vernacular architecture in the eastern United States, with an emphasis on origins and mechanisms for change, https://archive.org/details/patterninmateria0000glas
Glassie, Henry, 1975, Folk housing in middle Virginia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Probably the most detailed study of a vernacular architecture in existence. Looks at changes in typology over a 200-year period in the architecture of middle Virginia. Study Includes both log and frame structures, https://archive.org/details/folkhousinginmid0000glas
Kniffen, F. (1965). Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 55(4), 549–577. A geographer’s view of vernacular types. It includes a look at notching and cabin types (including some front-gabled varieties) and traces the western diffusion of these variables (into the Midwest only). http://www.jstor.org/stable/2569440
Meyer, D. K. (1975). Diffusion of Upland South Folk Housing to the Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois. Pioneer America, 7(2), 56–66, A test of Glassie’s theories about changes and diffusion as put forth in his Middle Virginia book, http://www.jstor.org/stable/29763557
Shurtleff, Harold R., 1939, The log cabin myth: a study of early dwellings of the English colonists in North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. A separation of fact from fiction in the early architecture and materials of North American colonists; very good source for the historical background of log housing in North America, https://archive.org/details/logcabinmythstud0000shur
General Sources
(The following publications are not directly written about log construction but do include some cabin information, or else are about cabins, but of a very general nature.)
Aldrich, Chilson D., 1934, The real log cabin. New York: Macmillan Co., https://archive.org/details/reallogcabin0000chil
Gould, Mary Earl, 1965, Early American life: households in America (1620-1850), Ruttland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishers, https://www.amazon.com.mx/Early-American-House-Household-America/dp/B000I02B3G
Guidoni, Enrico, 1977, Primitive architecture, New York: H. N. Abrahams, Interesting cross-cultural look at vernacular building traditions, https://archive.org/details/primitivearchite0000guid_n9g3
HOAGLAND, A. K. (2018). The Log Cabin: An American Icon. University of Virginia Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1ztdw8w
Hoover, Helen, 1969, A place in the woods. New York: Alphred A. Knopf, https://archive.org/details/placeinwoods0000hele
Kemp, Oliver, 1908, Wilderness homes: a book of log cabins. New York: The Outing Publishing Co. (2nd ed., 1911), https://archive.org/details/wildernesshomesb00kemp
Labastvllle, Anne, 1976, Woodswoman. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., https://archive.org/details/woodswoman00laba
MASON, Benard S., 1945, Woodsmanship, A.S. Barnes and Company, New York, https://dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/Woodsmanship_Bernard_Mason/Woodsmanship_Bernard_Mason_text.pdf
Mercer, H. C., 1923, The dating of old homes. Doylestown, Pa.: Bucks County Historical Society Papers, Vol. 5., https://archive.org/details/mercer-henry-c.-the-dating-of-old-houses
Mercer,H. C.,1975, Ancient carpenter's tools. Doylestoim, Pa.: Bucks County Historical Society (reprint). https://archive.org/details/ancientcarpenter0000merc
Morrison, Hugh, 1952, Early American architecture: colonial to national period. Toronto: Oxford University Press, https://archive.org/details/earlyamericanarc0000morr/page/n5/mode/2up
National park Service History Library, https://www.npshistory.com/usfs_history.htm
Orians,G. Harrison, 1955, My life in a log house; Northwest Ohio Quarterly 27: Fall.
Peterson, Charles E., 1976, Building early America. Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, https://archive.org/details/buildingearlyame0000unse
Rustrum, Calvin S., 1961 The wilderness cabin. New York: Macmillan Co., A general overview of cabin and adobe techniques and variations, https://archive.org/details/wildernesscabin00ruts
Scully, Vin, 1962 The earth the temple, and the gods. New Haven: Yale University Press, https://archive.org/details/earthtemplegodsg0000scul
Sloane, Eric
1954, American barns and covered bridges. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, https://archive.org/details/american-barns-and-covered-bridges/mode/2up
1954, Eric Sloan’s America, Promontory Press, New York, NY, https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/eric-sloanes-america/Eric%20Sloanes%20America.pdf
1963, ABC Book of Early America, Hastings House Publishers , https://archive.org/details/isbn_0385046634
1964, A museum of early American tools. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, https://archive.org/details/museum-of-early-american-tools
1965, A reverence for wood. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., https://archive.org/details/a-reverence-for-wood
1975 Cabins and vacation homes. Menlo Park, Calif.: Lane Publishing Co.
1976 The log cabin renaissance; Sunset Magazine, October: 74-83.
Waterman, Thomas T., 1950, The dwellings of colonial America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, https://archive.org/details/dwellingsofcolon0000thom/page/n5/mode/2up
Wiggington, Eliot; Editor, 1972, The foxfire book. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co., https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5706732M/The_Foxfire_book
Dillon, Ralph, (editor), 1938, Sunset's cabin plan book (Catalog), Sunset Magazine, San Francisco, CA, https://archive.org/details/SunsetMagazineSunsetscabinplanbook0001/page/n19/mode/2up
A. The Western United States
Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1976, Log construction in the Sawtooth Valley of Idaho. Pioneer America 8(1): 36-46, https://books.google.com/books/about/Building_with_Logs.html?id=PvPWAAAAMAAJ
Gritzner, C. F. (1971). Log Housing In New Mexico. Pioneer America, 3(2), 54–62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44897860
Carlson, Axel R., 1977 Building a log house in Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Cooperative Extension Service, https://search.worldcat.org/title/building-a-log-house-in-alaska/oclc/4367862
Comstock, William Phillips, 1915, Bungalows, Camps, and Mountain Houses. William Comstock Co., https://archive.org/details/bungalowscampsmo0000coms
Jackson, J. B., 1975, A catalog of New Mexico building terms. Landscape 1(3): 31-32. A short glossary of Mexican architectural terms, both official and vernacular.
Kilpinen, Jon T., 1995, The Front .. Gabled Log Cabin And The Role Of The Great Plains In The Formation of the Mountain West's Built Landscape", Great Plains Quarterly. Paper 1046, University of Nebraska, http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/1046
McDaniel, Marion, and Jerry Wylie, 1979, Cultural resource evaluation of Sater Cabin - Little Creek. Middle Fork Ranger District, Challis National Forest, Idaho. USDA, Forest Service, Intermountain Region.
Muckelroy, Duncan C., 1974, Ranching history of the American West: revitalized through the preservation of its architecture. Pioneer America 6(2); 34-42. Looks at examples of preserved Texas ranch houses, including dugouts, and vertical log construction.
Perry, Edgar, 1971 The old log cabin. Tucson: The Arizona State Historical Society.
Pittman, Leon Sidney, 1973, A survey of the 19th century folk housing of the Mormons. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society.
Proenneke, Keith, and Richard Proenneke, 1973, One man’s wilderness. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company.
Rice, Ed, 1975, Building in the North. Fairbanks, Alaska: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska.
Schumann, David R., 1976 Building with house logs in Alaska. Juneau, Alaska: Division of State and Private Forestry, USDA, Forest Service.
Segger, Martin, 1977 Log idom survivals in West Coast architecture (1890-1930). Banff, Alberta: Canadian Log Structures Conference.
Sultz, Phillip W., 1964, From sagebrush to hay and back again. American West 1(1): 20-30., A photo-essay of log structures around Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
1969 Architectural values of early frontier log structures. From Forms upon the frontier; folklife and folk arts in the United States. Logan, Utah. Again dealing with Jackson Hole, Wyoming, but also discusses the factors that may have influenced structural design.
Sutherland, M., and J. Lock, 1949, Adobe New Mexico. National Geographic 96(6): December.
Vaughan, Thomas; Editor, 1974, Space, style, and structure; buildings in northwest America (2 volumes). Portland: Oregon Historical Society. A thorough examination of Northwest building styles from pioneer days to modern cities.
WILSON, Mary, 1984, The Rocky Mountain Cabin, Log Cabin Studies, Cultural Resources No.9, Unites States Department of Agriculture (USDA), https://archive.org/details/CAT86865024
Wylie, Jerry, 1978, Cultural resource evaluation of the Sack (Kipp) cabin. Big Springs. Island Park Ranger District, Targhee National Forest, Idaho. USDA-Forest Service, Intermountain Region.
1979 A cultural resource evaluation of the Cabin Creek Ranch, Payette National Forest. Appendices by Rossillion and Sprague, Green, Attebery, Dalstrum, Hartung, and Wells. USDA-Forest Service, Intermountain Region.
B. The Midwest and Plains States
Bonebright, Harriet B., 1921, The Midwest and Plains States, Reminiscences of Newcastle, Iowa in 1848. Des Moines: State of Iowa History Dept. A variety of frontier tasks are discussed. https://ia801301.us.archive.org/34/items/reminiscencesofn00clos/reminiscencesofn00clos.pdf
Brandt, L. R., & Braatz, N. E. (1972). Log Buildings in Portage County, Wisconsin: Some Cultural Implications. Pioneer America, 4(1), 29–39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44897791
Fisher, O., (1965) “Life in a Log Home”, The Annals of Iowa 37(8), 561-573. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.7730
Hudson, J. (1973). Two Dakota Homestead Frontiers. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 63(4), 442–462. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2562052
Hutslar, Donald A., 1986, The architecture of migration : log construction in the Ohio country, 1750-1850, Ohio University Press, Athens Ohio, https://archive.org/details/architectureofmi0000huts
Klammer, Paul A., 1960, Collecting log cabins: a photographer's hobby. Minnesota History 37(2). https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/37/v37i02p071-077.pdf
Marshall, H. W. (1971). The “Thousand Acres” Log House Monroe County, Indiana. Pioneer America, 3(1), 48–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44897869
Meyer, D. K. (1975). Diffusion of Upland South Folk Housing to the Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois. Pioneer America, 7(2), 56–66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29763557
Conover, J. H. (1968). [Review of The Architecture of Wisconsin, by R. W. E. Perrin]. New York History, 49(3), 361–363. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42682875
Petersen, W. J., (1960) “The Pioneer Log Cabin”, The Palimpsest 41(11), 485-516. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/0031-0360.22763
Welsch, Roger L., 1980, Nebraska log construction: momentum in tradition. Nebraska History, fall: 310-335.
Witzel, S. A., 1935, Log buildings. Madison: Agricultural Extension Service Circular 158, University of Wisconsin.
C. The East and the South
Alexander, Drury B., and Tod Webb, 1966, Texas homes of the nineteenth century. Austin: The University of Texas Press, https://books.google.com/books/about/Texas_Homes_of_the_Nineteenth_Century.html?id=9zhUAAAAMAAJ
Alcott, John V., 1963, Colonial homes in North Carolina. Carolina Charter Tercentenary Committee, Raleigh, https://archive.org/details/colonialhomesinn1963allc
Arthur, E. R., and D. Whitney, 1972 The barn. Galahad Books., New York, , ISBN-13 : 978-0883654057, https://www.amazon.com/Barn-Vanishing-Landmark-North-America/dp/B000KCYENC
Bastian, R. W. (1977). INDIANA FOLK ARCHITECTURE: A LOWER MIDWESTERN INDEX. Pioneer America, 9(2), 115–136. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20831860
Black, Patti Carr, 1976, Mississippi piney woods architecture. Jackson: Mississippi State History Museum, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61801
Bronner, Simon J., 'American Folk Buildings, Constructions, and Landscapes', in Simon J. Bronner (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies, Oxford Handbooks (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 7 Mar. 2018), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190840617.013.17
Bucher, Robert C., 1962, The continental log house. Pennsylvania Folkllfe 12(4): 14-19, https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/13/
Conger, Roger N., 1954, Historic log cabins in McLennan County, Texas. Waco, Texas: Heritage Society of Waco, https://archive.org/details/historiclogcabin00cong
Connor, Seymor V., 1949, Log cabins in Texas. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 53(2): 105-115, https://www.jstor.org/stable/i30237563
Durham, W. T. (1974). Wynnewood. Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 33(2), 127–156. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42623447
Dwyer, Charles P., 1872, The Immigrant builder - or practical hints for the handyman. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Immigrant_Builder.html?id=s5RwjwEACAAJ
Glassie, Henry
1963 The Appalachian log cabin. Mountain Life and Work 39(4): 5-14.
1964 The smaller outbuildings of the southern mountains. Mountain Life and Work. 21-29.
1965a A central chimney continental log house. Pennsylvania Folklife 18(2); 33-39.
1965b The old barns of Appalachia. Mountain Life and Work, summer: 21-29.
1968a Pattern in the material folk culture of the eastern United States. Philadelphia; University of Philadelphia Press.
1968b The types of the southern mountain cabin. Appendix C of Jan Bruvand’s The Study of American Folklore. New York: W. W. Norton.
1975 Folk housing in Middle Virginia. Knoxville; University of Tennessee Press.
Giles, Henry E., Janice Holt Giles, 1963, A little better than plumb: the bibliography of a house. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, https://archive.org/details/littlebetterthan00gile
Heimsath, Clovis, 1968, Pioneer Texas buildings - a geometry lesson. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, https://archive.org/details/pioneertexasbuil0000heim_y3y1
Hendershott, Allan, 1937, Handicrafts in the southern highlands. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, https://archive.org/details/handicraftsofsou1937unse
Hulan, R. H. (1975). Middle Tennessee and the Dogtrot House. Pioneer America, 7(2), 37–46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29763555
Jeffers, Jack, Jack Jeffers Photography collection, This collection is divided into eight series based primarily on the geographic region in which the images were photographed. Series include: Series I: Appalachian; Series II: North Carolina and Tennessee; https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/911
Johnston, Francis B., 1941, The early architecture of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, https://www.loc.gov/item/42002517/
Robbie D. Jones, "Wynnewood", [Castalian Springs, Tennessee], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TN-01-165-0100
Jordan, Terry G., 1978, Texas log buildings; a folk architecture. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, https://archive.org/details/texaslogbuilding0000jord/page/n5/mode/2up
Jordan, Terry G., 1976 Log timbering in Texas. Pioneer America 8(1): 8-18. https://archive.org/details/texaslogbuilding0000jord/page/n3/mode/2up
Pillsbury, R., and A. Kardos, 1970, A field guide to folk architecture of the northeastern United States. Hanover, N.H.; Dartmouth College Press, https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetofolk0000pill
Kelley, J. Frederick, 1924, Early domestic architecture of Connecticut. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, https://archive.org/details/earlydomesticarc0000kell
Kniffen, F., & Glassie, H. (1966). Building in Wood in the Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective. Geographical Review, 56(1), 40–66. https://doi.org/10.2307/212734
Kniffen, F. (1963). The Physiognomy of Rural Louisiana. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, 4(4), 291–299. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4230729
Montell, W. L., 1976, Kentucky folk architecture. Lexington, Ky.: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, University Press, https://archive.org/details/kentuckyfolkarch0000mont
Owens, Seldon, Ben, 2003, The Dogtrot House Type In Georgia: A History and Evolution, University of Georgia, https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/owens_sheldon_b_200908_mhp.pdf
Smith, J. M. (Ed.). (1959). Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History. University of North Carolina Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807839812_smith
Rosenberger, Jesse Leonard, 1923 The Pennsylvania Germans : a sketch of their history and life, of the Mennonites, and of side lights from the Rosenberger family, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniagerm00rose_1
Rodning, Christopher, B.,2011, Cherokee Townhouses: Architectural Adaptation to European Contact in the Southern Appalachians, North American Archaeologist, Vol. 32(2) 131-190, https://www.academia.edu/1199608/Cherokee_Townhouses_Architectural_Adaptation_to_European_Contact_in_the_Southern_Appalachians?auto=download
Thomas, James C., 1974 The log houses of Kentucky. Antiques 105: 791-798, https://preservationkentucky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Pioneer-Log-Houses-in-KY-Bill-McIntire.pdf
Wacker, Peter 0., and Bob Trindel, 1969, The log house in New Jersey - origins and diffusion. Keystone Folklore Quarterly: Winter, https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/63/3/682/844933?login=false
Weslager, C. A. (1955). LOG HOUSES IN PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 22(3), 256–266. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27769605
Willis, Stanley, 1972 Log houses in southwest Virginia: tools used in their construction. Virginia Cavalcade 21(4): 36-47, https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/cavalcade/volumes/v21_30/spr72.htm
Wilson, Eugene M., 1975, Alabama Folk House, University of South Alabama, Alabama Historical Commission and U. S. Department of the Interior, https://archive.org/details/wilson-1975-alabama-folk-houses
WILSON, Mary, 1984, The Rocky Mountain Cabin, Log Cabin Studies, Cultural Resources No.9, Unites States Department of Agriculture (USDA), https://archive.org/details/CAT86865024
Woods, John, 1904 Two years residence in settlements on the English prairie. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, edited by Rueben G. Thwaites: 274-279. Cleveland, https://archive.org/details/twoyearsreside7727wood
Vlach, J. M. (1995). Fred B. Kniffen’s Milestones in American Folklife Study. The Journal of American Folklore, 108(429), 328–333. https://doi.org/10.2307/541888
Zelinsky, Wilbur, 1953 The log house in Georgia. Geographical Review 43(2): 173-193, https://www.jstor.org/stable/211932?origin=crossref, https://www.jstor.org/stable/211932
D. - Outside the United States
Alnaes, Eyvind, et al., 1950, Norwegian architecture throughout the ages. Oslo, Norway: H. Aschehough and Co.
Arthur, Eric Ross, 1938 The early buildings of Ontario. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Early_Buildings_of_Ontario.html?id=w3wvAAAAMAAJ
Boethius, Cerda
1927 Studier i den Nordiska timmerbyggnadskonsten. Stockholm, Sweden.
1977 The Canadian log house. Prince George, B.C.
Bugge, Gunnar, and Christian Norborg-Schulze, 1969, Early wooden architecture in Norway. Oslo, Norway: Byggekunst.
Burcaw, George E., 1973 The Saxon House as a cultural index in European ethnography. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press.
Clemson, Donovan, 1974 Living with logs: British Columbia’s log buildings and rail fences. Sanichton, B.C.: Hancock House.
Erexon, Sirgud, 1937, The north European technique of corner-timbering. Folkliv 1:56-68.
Glmbutas, Margla, 1956, The prehistory of Eastern Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: The Peabody Museum.
1963 The Balts. London, England: Thames and Hudson.
Gowans, Alan, 1958, Looking at architecture in Canada. Toronto, Ontario: Oxford, University Press.
Gullet, Edwin G., 1963, The pioneer farmer and backwoods man. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press.
Hale, Richard W., 1963 The French side of the log cabin myth. Mass. Historical Society: 118-125.
Hansen, Hans Jurgen, 1971 Architecture in wood. London, England: Faber and Faber.
Hallerot, Bjorn, 1965, Timmerhus. Falv Nya Boktryckeri, Artifbolag.
Carter, Thomas, North European Horizontal Log Construction in the Sanpete-Sevier Valleys, Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1984, No. 1, https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume52_1984_number1/s/143354
Jacquet, Pierre, 1963 The Swiss chalet. Zurich: Orell Fussll.
Kavll, Guthorm, et al., 1958 Norwegian Architecture - past and present. Oslo, Norway: Dreyers Forlag, https://books.google.com/books/about/Norwegian_Architecture_Past_and_Present.html?id=g_BPAAAAMAAJ
Mackie, B. Allan
1972 Building with logs. Prince George: Hairy Woodpecker Publications.
1974- The Canadian log house (annual publication). Prince George: Allan
1978 Mackie Publications.
Mercer, Eric, 1975, English vernacular architecture, on Historical Documents. London, England: Royal Commission, https://archive.org/details/englishvernacula00roya
Noble, A. G. (1981). Sod Houses and Similar Structures: A Brief Evaluation of the Literature. Pioneer America, 13(2), 61–66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29763626
Henry, Lorne, 1938 Pioneer days in Ontario. Toronto, Ontario: Ryerson Press, https://archive.org/details/pioneerdaysinont00henr
Rempel, J. I. (1967). Building with Wood and Other Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Building in Central Canada. University of Toronto Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctvcj2qrz
Richardson, A. J. H. (1973). A Comparative Historical Study of Timber Building in Canada. Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, 5(3), 77–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/1493428
Ritchie, T., 1967 Canada buildings - 1867-1967., Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, https://archive.org/details/canadabuilds18670000trit
Ritchie, T. (1971). Plankwall Framing, a Modern Wall Construction with an Ancient History. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 30(1), 66–70. https://doi.org/10.2307/988674
Roberts,Warren, 1976, Some comments on log construction in Scandinavia and the United States. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana Folklore Institute, Indiana University, https://archives.iu.edu/html/InU-Ar-VAA9415.html
Wonders, W. C. (1979). Log Dwellings in Canadian Folk Architecture. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 69(2), 187–207. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2563065
Construction and Restoration
Anderson, L. 0., 1975 Wood house construction. Agricultural Handbook 73. Washington: Government Printing Office, https://archive.org/details/woodframehouseco0000oche
Angier, Bradford, 1952 How to build your home in the woods. New York: Sheridan House, Hart Publishing, https://archive.org/details/howtobuildyourho0000brad
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