Download or read book To Build in a New Land written by Allen G. Noble and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, To Build in a New Land includes chapters on Ukrainian pioneer landscapes in western Canada, Cajun farmsteads in Louisiana, Czech settlements in South Dakota, Danish homes in Iowa and Minnesota, vernacular architecture of the German-Russian Mennonites of southeastern Manitoba, Afro-American housing in the southeastern United States, and the regional variations of Irish, English, and Scottish construction in Ontario.