Country Carpenter: Josiah C. Werner, 1863-1926Catherine M. Rhoads Gateway Press, 1991 - 128 pages Adam Werner (1800-1876) and his wife, Anna Catharine Sass, came to America from Germany in 1854 settling in Pennsylvania. This is the life story of their grandson, Josiah C. Werner, a Pennsylvania carpenter. |
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... vernacular style includes a picturesque four - gabled steeple , with open belfrey and stick work - decorated spire . The steeple is balanced by a grouping of three windows on the facade . The steeple tower base serves as the entrance ...
... vernacular style includes a picturesque four - gabled steeple , with open belfrey and stick work - decorated spire . The steeple is balanced by a grouping of three windows on the facade . The steeple tower base serves as the entrance ...
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... vernacular instead of classical architecture : one room decp , two stories high , sometimes an L addition , and wrap - around porch . As the families became more affluent , they added decorative trim . In 1892 , his uncle CONRAD WERNER ...
... vernacular instead of classical architecture : one room decp , two stories high , sometimes an L addition , and wrap - around porch . As the families became more affluent , they added decorative trim . In 1892 , his uncle CONRAD WERNER ...
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... Vernacular Architecture , Faber & Faber , 1970 Joseph W. Gloss , Pa . Culture : A View from the Barn , Ann Arbor : UMI , 1986 Herbert Gottfried , American Vernacular Design 1870-1940 , Van Nostrand 1985 History of Allegheny Evangelical ...
... Vernacular Architecture , Faber & Faber , 1970 Joseph W. Gloss , Pa . Culture : A View from the Barn , Ann Arbor : UMI , 1986 Herbert Gottfried , American Vernacular Design 1870-1940 , Van Nostrand 1985 History of Allegheny Evangelical ...
Contents
Werner Family Comes To America | 8 |
Mother Dinah Smith Werner | 16 |
Wife Lydia Stahl Werner | 28 |
Copyright | |
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