| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Beauty & Convenience: Architecture and Order in the New Republic. By Nora Pat Small. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xxiv, 155 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-57233-236-0.)
Nora Pat Small's informative monograph analyzes the material improvements that farmers of the town of Sutton, Massachusetts, made to their homesteads between 1790 and 1840. Placing the results in a wider context, she seeks to answer the following questions: What enabled the farmers to make the particular changes they made, what motivated them to do so, and why did contemporary urban observers so often condemn those changes?	1
During the years in question, the farm families of Sutton regularly chose to enlarge their simple, one-story houses by carrying them up another story. Laterally symmetrical, balanced with chimneys at each end and provided with classically inspired entablatures and doorways framed by fluted pilasters and topped with fanlights, the resulting houses presented a distinctly federal-style profile in Sutton's countryside. Sutton's farmers also preferred adding ells to their houses instead of lean-tos that competed with the classical shell of the structure. There were other changes too. Fields were more definitively marked off with stone walls or fences, and larger, longer barns replaced or supplemented older structures.	. . .

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