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LOOKING AT VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE: GROTTOS OF THE AMERICAN MIDWEST Text and photos by Susan A. Niles (niless@lafayette.edu) Anthropologists and folklorists are interested in the things that people make in order to understand the ideas by which they order their world. Throughout the American Midwest are examples of a distinctive folk building tradition. Known locally as grottos, these structures ...




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