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Fred W. Peterson, Anglo-American Wooden Frame Farmhouses in the Midwest, 1830-1900: Origins of Balloon Frame Construction, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 8, People, Power, Places (2000), pp. 3-16
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