Classic Cracker

Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture

Ronald W Haase

• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781561646913
• Year: 2015

Winner of the 1993 LoPresti Award for excellence in art publishing

Cracker homes take the best advantage of the climate and terrain of Florida. This book provides a history of Florida wood-frame architecture, from the simplest "single-pen" homesteads to the latest homes at Seaside, and includes several floor plans for new adaptations of classic Cracker architecture. Learn about the double-pen house, the classic dogtrot, the four-square Georgian, the Cracker townhouse, and much more with this exploration of Florida's orginal architecture.

Includes several floor plans for new adaptations of classic Cracker architecture.

Table of contents

• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION THE CRACKER ARCHITECTURE OF FLORIDA
• CHAPTER ONE A PERSONAL SEARCH FOR CRACKER FLORIDA
• CHAPTER TWO A SINGLE-PEN HOMESTEAD FOR STARTERS
• CHAPTER THREE THE DOG-TROT FOR A GROWING FAMILY
• CHAPTER FOUR PLANTATIONS WITHOUT WHITE PILLARS
• CHAPTER FIVE FOUR-SQUARE GEORGIAN AND THE CRACKER TOWNHOUSE
• CHAPTER SIX HISTORIC ALLUSION IN A POST-MODERN ERA
• CHAPTER SEVEN THINKING TYPOLOGICALLY
• AFTERWORD