The idea of a straw building might bring to mind a medieval homestead, or perhaps the fairy-tale dwelling of The Three Little Pigs. Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building ...

The Birmingham Water Works Board is spending $795,000 to buy three cabins along the banks of Inland Lake in Blount County that they plan to abandon. The price for the group of three rustic buildings ...

Rustic Architecture in America 1887–1940 is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture ...