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Show also allowed a limited amount of fieldwork in those European areas which sent settlers to the Sanpete Valley. In addition to particular localities in Jutland, Odense, and Zealand in Denmark, I was able to travel to parts of Scana Province and to Stq< holm in Sweden and, further afield, to the Glamorganshire region of South Wales, another important source of immigrants in the Sanpete Valley. This European experience provided essential background data with which to assess the impact of life in Zion on these immigrant building traditions. Following my return from Denmark, I began the long--seemingly endless--task of turning my field data into meaningful explanation. Throughout the study, my perceptions of this material have continually changed and evolved. To be truthful, I came to this work expecting to find--as others had before me--architectural uniformity. Instead, I found just the opposite, a healthy, typically American frontier architecture with newcomers consistently finding the solutions to their building needs in the traditions of their recently departed homelands. How this pattern of diversity came into being, why it persisted, how it changed--these questions have fueled this inquiry during its long, slow journey to fruition. A Note on the Drawings The field measurements for this study were recorded to the nearest 1/2 inch. In reproducing them for this study, it was not possible to work with a scale large enough to faithfully depict their accuracy. I have generally drawn all house floorplans to the scale: l inch equals 10 feet. In several instances where the building plans were complicated 25 |
