In May 1978, three log dwellings, another log dwelling subsequently converted for use as a barn, a log school building, a log and frame construction barn, four cliff barns and a weatherboard-covered log church in the Paintsville Lake Project of Johnson and Morgan counties, eastern Kentucky, were architecturally recorded. The report presents a brief introduction of the project area, describes the setting of the project area and details the recording methodology employed. Each structure is subsequently discussed in depth in both its exterior and interior architectural details. Floor plans and numerous photographs of each structure are included as are historical data important to a deeper appreciations and understanding of their historical significance. Brief conclusions arising from the study are offered, and some comparisons with a similar study undertaken in adjoining Lawrence County, Kentucky in 1977 are set forth.

"The Appalachian community of Hollybush, first settled in 1881, grew to a population of some 150 people on thirty farm sites. Charles Martin shows that its abandonment in 1960 resulted from technological change, which brought social upheaval manifested in the region's now-vanished architecture." "Martin's analysis makes innovative use of the techniques of oral history and material culture. The essential data incorporated within the building survey document the physical displacement that occurred in the community as it attempted to switch from an agrarian to an industrial system. The author assesses the resulting social conflict, showing how coal provided the catalyst for change to which residents so profoundly reacted. In the experience of Hollybush the author discovers a paradigm of the social changes wrought by industrialism elsewhere in America."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.