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Barns of the North Fork | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Ann Spencer
Publisher: Quantuck Lane
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $27.55
You Save: $12.40 (31%)
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 962369
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 10.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1593720149
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.9220974721
EAN: 9781593720148
ASIN: 1593720149
Publication Date: September 5, 2005
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Product Description
The North Fork is the roughly sixty-mile-long spit of New York's Long Island that runs from Riverhead to Orient Point. With the fairly well protected Long Island Sound on the North and Peconic Bay on the South, it was a logical place for some of the earliest English immigrants to settle and build barns. It is still home to more working farms than any other part of the island. And from the timber-frame barns of the British farmers of the seventeenth century to the pole barns of the twentieth, the variety is stunning.
In a survey sponsored by the Old House Society in Cutchogue, Mary Ann Spencer spent the last few years making a comprehensive inventory and photographing more than six hundred barns on the North Fork. Two hundred of them are still in use, although their fate is by no means certain. Here in their glory (and sometimes less than that) are the most interesting barns,which reveal, among other things, their functional development, their often haphazard fenestration, their soft patina of age, and their fit in the landscape. Spencer's complete survey forms a second part of this book, which provokes feelings of nostalgia and raises our fears for the future of these wonderful structures. More than 150 color photographs.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Confrontational Barns July 12, 2006
Conrad J. Obregon (New York, NY USA)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
There is something in the American psyche that makes us believe in barns. Perhaps it's the feeling that somehow, we are still an agrarian society, or perhaps it's nostalgia for things that never were. But even if we haven't actually gone looking for these farm buildings, many of us somehow have a special place for them in our hearts.
The author of "Barns of the North Fork" was commissioned to do an inventory of existing barns on the spit of land that sticks out from the main body of Long Island. Even though just a few hours from New York City, farming is still a major occupation and of the 734 barns inventoried over half of them are still in agricultural use.
Other than a brief introduction and list of the inventoried barns, the book consists of about 90 color photographs of barns, with rather spare descriptions of the location of the barn, and occasionally a brief remark on some significant feature. The style is more in keeping with record keeping rather then a search for aesthetic significance, so that it is almost confrontational. Many of the buildings are photographed head-on without a trace of any sidewalls, as if the building were merely a stage set. Occasionally a structure is photographed from an angle but I often felt that that was because there was no other place for the photographer to stand. A few photographs show the environment of the structure, such as a barn in Southold about which the author asks "When we envision barns, do we see the structure or do we see the structure in its setting?" Unfortunately, more often than not, the author saw the structure. There are no detail photographs.
There is also a curious drabness about these barns, probably due to the fact that most pictures seem to have been taken on overcast days, with leaden skies. When the reader finally encounters a picture with the full range of light, the eye is surprised.
Perhaps I'm being overly critical because I've traveled North Fork roads and seen these same barns, and felt that they offered an opportunity for aesthetic work. But these pictures seem to have been created for another purpose.
Lovers of barns, and there are many, will enjoy this book. So will those who care for the North Fork. Photographers, on the other hand, may feel that there are missed opportunities. For them, I might recommend a little book published by the University of Iowa called "Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon" by Michael P. Harker.
 An Extraordinary Evocation of American Life January 14, 2006
swimjay (Berkeley, CA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is one of the most interesting and beautiful cultural studies I have ever read. It was fascinating to discover such a wealth and density of human experience, as memorialized in these unassuming yet proud utilitarian structures of our past, in an area of the country I knew nothing about. Looking at these barns, imagining the work and imagination it took to make them, and their centrality in the lives of those who used them, it felt as though a way into lives past had been opened to me. I can only hope these photos awaken a climate of respect and caring which will have these barns, and other structures like them, survive for many years to come.
Amazing - a must have October 27, 2005
RJ (New York, NY)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
The Barns of the North Fork is truly amazing. The book is the perfect blend of art and history, and one can truly see how much passion and effort the author has put in to make it so comprehensive. Since I've had it, it is the first book reached for on my coffee table and the one I've heard the most positive feedback about. For an enchanting portrayal of part of America's history, and culture you will not be dissapointed. It is truly unique and is most definitely a must have.
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