As we work on our research projects, Dr. Logan also has us considering how we would teach the information in the context of an undergraduate class. Before discussing the way architecture mirrored and reinforced women's roles during the early Republic years, I would assign the following readings and activities.
- Log in to UCF's library page. Go to Evans Digital database and find John Stanford's sermon "Sacred Architecture, or The Design of Jehova in Building the Temple of Solomon, A Sermon." Read the following pages: first unnumbered page of sermon - page 2, pages 16-19, page 26 paragraph 1, and pages 28-29. Consider.
- According to Stanford, what made architecture necessary?
- Where can you find feminized language?
- How does Stanford relate architecture to the body and spirit?
- What does the sermon say about the profession of architecture in America in the early 1790's?
- Think of a home you lived in as a child. Picture it in as much detail as possible. Draw a floorplan. Label the floorplan with the names of the rooms, how they were used, and which members of the household used them most.
- Use this link to find Lynne Walker's article "Home Making: An Architectural Perspective." Read the first 8 paragraphs, which are the introduction and discussion of Victorian domestic architecture. Make sure to view the embedded floorplan. http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.ucf.edu/ehost/detail?sid=dc146b57-fa9a-4750-9954-f70c6b1bac8b%40sessionmgr104&vid=4&hid=119
- Go to Fiske Kimball's book Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic. Read Pages 155-162. Scroll through other photos and floor plans of houses from this era. Note room use and placement. If you can, print one or two floorplans to bring to class. http://books.google.com/books?id=ApwsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=new+republic+domestic+architecture&source=bl&ots=MXfNhWnxMd&sig=YBiBp6WS4eLU8pxvDY9MxaO71Xk&hl=en&ei=D5vATruIEMaTtweQzeWvBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Read Pages 31-32 of Pauline E. Schloesser's book The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic. http://books.google.com/books?id=aUCGdEEEOiEC&pg=PA31&dq=widow's+dower+early+republic&hl=en&ei=MKHATo3oN9G5tgeCseyuBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=widow's%20dower%20early%20republic&f=false
Floor plan and photo of the Swan House in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Image Credit: http://downeastdilettante.wordpress.com/2011/page/3/
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