Ron,
Per Lee, some of the people who inhabited the area she is investigating came from Rio Arriba County in NM. This population is Hispanic/Basque/detribalized Pueblo/Apache/Navajo. The vertical logs in question were coated with adobe plaster on the inside. In local terms, it is a jacal. There is a tradition of mixed architecture here in which different rooms use different styles of architecture. A single house can be vertical log with plaster (jacal), adobe, and horizontal log. I have been in such houses. The mixture results from the need to create additional rooms with whatever materials and help are available at the time the room is built. Rooms are added over time as the need arises. In the 1930's there were a number of people from Texas and Oklahoma who came to NM to become cattle partidos (sharecroppers) to survive the depression. There are several examples of jacal homes that were built for them by their Hispanic neighbors. The stacked stone
fireplaces are also a common feature of these places.
David Legare
--- On Wed, 6/4/08, Ron May <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Ron May <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Vertical log construction
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 11:23 PM
> Lee,
>
> Vertical log construction is French, not Hispanic. At the
> SHA Conference in
> St. Louis a few years back, we visited three such houses on
> a tour. I spent
> some time in the museum studying that unusual technique.
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
>
>
> In a message dated 6/3/2008 11:23:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight
> Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Išve recorded a 3-pen log structure in a remote part of
> SE Utah. It
> probably dates between 1885-1905 and includes one
> horizontal log pen, and 2
> pens built of logs placed vertically and apparently erected
> after the
> horizontal room. There is speculation that the vertical
> log technique
> indicates Hispanic presence. Does anyone have sources that
> would confirm or
> refute this claim?
>
> Lee A. Bennett, RPA
> Bennett Management Services, LLC
> Monticello, UT
>
>
>
>
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