These are also known as double-pen houses, at least according to Glassie's
"Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (1968).
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The "two front door" house type mentioned is a Southern derivative of the
Pennsylvania German farmhouse. The Southern variant is also known as a
"Cumberland House." Some citations:
Falk, Cynthia G. "Symbols of Assimilation or Status?: The Meanings of
Eighteenth- Century Houses in Coventry Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania." Winterthur Portfolio 30 (1998): 107-34.
Glassie, Henry. "Eighteenth-Century Cultural Processes in Delaware Valley
Folk Building." In Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular
Architecture, edited by Dell Upton and John Michael Vlach, 394-425. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1986.
Long, Amos. The Pennsylvania German Family Farm. Publications of the
Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 6. Breinigsville, Pennsylvania: The
Pennsylvania German Society, 1972.
Riedl, Norbert F., Donald Ball, and Anthony Cavender. A Survey of
Traditional Architecture and Related Material Folk Culture Patterns in the
Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee. Department of Anthropology,
Report of Investigations, no. 17. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of
Tennessee, 1976.
Weaver, William Ways. "The Pennsylvania German House: European Antecedents
and New World Forms." Winterthur Portfolio 21 (1986): 243-64.
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