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Show Folk Material 141 Culture A structure built partly of logs, the half-stone barn, is a prominent architectural type in the Sanpete-Sevier area.2"' As a type, the barns are English, 21 usually with two levels. The barns are quite common from Fairview to Manti. One barn in Fairview (fig. 16) with a roughly square floor plan was built half of logs, as was another rectangular barn (fig. 17). T h e fact that these Sanpete barns follow English folk architectural plans is significant in a place settled largely by Scandinavians and supports my contention that the vernacular regression among Scandinavian 83 I have seen other barn types in the state with rock foundations and walls. Charles S. Peterson recently informed me that barns, seemingly made partly of stone, are found in Davis and Cache counties adjacent to the mountains. However, the raised-loft hay barns in Cache County are not strictly analogous to the Sanpete-Sevier types. 24 Henry Glassie, Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968), pp. 133-41. Fig. 13. Nathaniel cabin in Manti. Fig. 14. Log house in Gunnison city park. Beach |
