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Photo, Print, Drawing Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine

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About this Item

Title

  • Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine

Names

  • Brassieur, C. Ray (Research team member)
  • Marshall, Howard W. (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Eagle Lake, Maine; Van Buren, Maine, June 26, 1991 - June 27, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Eagle Lake
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Van Buren

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: The Val Violette House is an important Acadian dwelling, in the piece-sur-piece en colombage construction tradition, and on National Register of Historic Places; 1-2, "temple form" Greek Revival-influenced Victorian period farm house, on Maine 11 near Eagle Lake, June 26; 3, John Brown house, on Me. 11 across the highway from Phil Brown house (fieldworkers' lodgings); note its color scheme: "sang de beouf" (ox blood shade of red plus grey); this color scheme is important regional identity in the St. John valley; 4, USGS quadrangle map of field research, on office wall, Ft. Kent field headquarters; 13, views of Val Violette House, US 1, Van Buren; this is a large and expanded version of the 19th century Acadian cottage house type; piece-sur-piece / log construction with columns (en colombage); note Greek Revival cornice and pilasters and other stylistic period decoration details; 14, Ray Brassieur inspects pieces of the madriers (logs) left from a remodelling of the Violette House; note the shape and size of these logs that were horizontal logs set flush (piece-sur-piece construction); not the tenon on the end of the log that was let into the groove (coulisse) in the vertical column; 15-18, details of roof construction in Violette House; note joints, note original decking under roofing; 19, equipment found by Brassier in the attic with a loom; 20, Sisters visiting there: S. Ludwina Deveau (a nun) (rt.) and her sister, Sister Hermine Deveau (a Marist missionary) * SEND COURTESY PRINT OF THIS SLIDE TO THEM (RB has address)

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: HM-C004
  • Field project identifier: MAP-HM-C004

Source Collection

  • Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and Howard W Marshall. Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine. Maine Eagle Lake Van Buren Aroostook County United States, 1991. Eagle Lake, Maine; Van Buren, Maine, - June 27, 1991. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c004/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Marshall, H. W. (1991) Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine. Maine Eagle Lake Van Buren Aroostook County United States, 1991. Eagle Lake, Maine; Van Buren, Maine, - June 27, 1991. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c004/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and Howard W Marshall. Val Violette House, Van Buren, Maine. Eagle Lake, Maine; Van Buren, Maine, - June 27, 1991. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_hm_c004/>.