2024-12-22T04:00:13-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/12331233/the-westward-moving-house-a-classic-revisited Paul Petrunia 2011-07-05T17:47:02-04:00 >2011-11-11T05:13:51-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d7/d739eb8a457395808682ecda088e85ae?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Three hundred years ago one Nehemiah Tinkham, with wife Submit Tinkham and six children, landed on the shores of New England to establish a home in the wilderness.</p></em><br /><br /><p> DesignObserver has just republished J.B. Jackson's classic essay "The Westward-Moving House," originally published in Landscape in 1953, which traces the evolution of the American house over three centuries and across the continent. Geographer Paul F. Starrs and photographer Peter Goin at the University of Nevada, Reno, have purchased the archive of Landscape and plan to digitize the archive and make it fully accessible. Fewer than a dozen libraries have a full set of the magazine. Jackson's terrific essay "The Westward-Moving House" was last anthologized 15 years ago and is now out of print. DO will be following later this week with a contemporary riff, "The Eastward-Moving House," by architect David Heymann.</p>