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Technology of Buildings
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Living in a House
Families
100
Heavy beams that fit in (notched) into an upright --pegged in place
What is mortise and tenon construction
100
This was the old "everything" room in the Colonial House
What is the hall?
100
Old-fashioned name for a bedroom
What is the chamber
100
It happened once a week in a cold, large basin in the kitchen
What is the weekly bath
100
She went out to work in the tidy, clean mills in New England at the start of the American Industrial Revolution
What is a Lowell (or mill) girl
200
An alcohol-based, colored wood sealer that is made from bug bodies
What is shellac?
200
This small house was considered revolutionary ca. 1910; no unnecessary rooms, natural woodwork, efficient layout
What is the bungalow?
200
This nail type was manufactured by 1880, making house construction faster and easier
What is the wire nail
200
Families gathered around this in the parlor and read the Bible, conversing
What is the center table
200
"The Light of the Home"
What is the Victorian wife and/or mother
300
Standardizing this malleable building material--from hand made to machine made-- greatly reduced time and cost on housing sites
What is the brick
300
In working class homes, this room doubled as a sitting room
What is the dining room
300
These helped diffuse style and design of houses throughout the country from the 18th century until about 1900
What are pattern books
300
A Colonial married couple might use these in their parlor for privacy and warmth
What are bed hangings
300
Town established by Blacks in which they homesteaded to escape oppression of the American South
What is Langston, OK
400
A new, inexpensive house framing system that used standard lumber and other components, simply nailed together, and on which to hang plaster and lath
What is balloon framing?
400
These are the most commonly found pieces of furnishings in 17th & 18th century inventories
What is the chest
400
Pious, Pure, Domestic, Submissive
What is the Cult of True Womanhood
400
Sleeping in this specialized space in the home might avoid illness, including tuberculosis
What is the sleeping porch
400
The enslaved worked from sunup to sundown in this type of slave labor system
What is gang slavery
500
Sticks and mud walls-- our earliest "plaster" walls
What is wattle and daub?
500
Some associate this early 20c style with anti-immigrant sentiment
What is Colonial Revival?
500
This company realized there was an unmet need for a personal cleanliness product, and developed these products from animal tallow
What is Procter & Gamble Soap co.
500
A caller might drop one of his or her cards into this item in the hallway
What is the card receiver
500
These men owned or leased enough land to vote in Colonial America
Who were the Yeoman