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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 2 Robert C Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Winter 1969 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 2 Robert C. Bucher Don Yoder Harry H. Hiller Henry Glassie Donald F. Durnbaugh Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag Part of the American Art and Architecture Commons, American Material Culture Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Cultural History Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Folklore Commons, Genealogy Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, History of Religion Commons, Linguistics Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Bucher, Robert C.; Yoder, Don; Hiller, Harry H.; Glassie, Henry; and Durnbaugh, Donald F., "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 2" (1969). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 35. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/35 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Contributors to This Issue ROBERT C. BUCHER, Schwe nksville, R.D., Pennsyl­ vania, whose long-time interest in Pennsylvani a's colonial architecture and its restoration involves him in both Gosch­ enhoppen Historians and HistOric chaefferstOwn, has con­ tributed several major articles to Pemzs')'lvania Folklife, on such varied subj ects as Grain in the Attic, Red Tile Roof­ ing, Irrigated Meadows, and the Continental Central-Chim­ ney Log H ouse. The last-named article has called forth H enty Glassie's article in this issue, while Robert Bucher's article on "The Swiss Bank H ouse in Pennsylvania" brea ks pioneer ground in id entifying a widespread house-type in the Pennsylva nia German Country. HARRY H . HILLER, H amiltO n, Ontario, is a graduate of the University of Alberta and is at present studying for the Ph.D. in Religious Studies at McMaster University in H amiltOn. \Xfhile at PrincetO n Theological Seminary in the Spring Semes ter of 1968 he prepared for Prof. John A. H ostetler's course in "Religious Communal Settlements in orth America" a paper which we here publish involving psychological interpretation of the Sleeping Preac her Movement among the Amish. HENRY GLASSIE, Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, is State Folklorist of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Di­ rectOr of the Ethnic Culture Survey of the Pennsylvania HistOr ical and Museum Commission. H e is ed itOr of our sister journal, K eystone Folklore Qttarte1'ly, and his book, Pat/em in Mate1'ial C1tltltt'e in the Eastern United States, is scheduled for winter publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press. DR. DO ALD F. DUR BAUGH, Oak Brook, Illinois, teaches Church HistOry at the Bethany Theological Sem­ inary at Oak Brook in su burban Chicago. H e received the Ph.D . in HistOry from the U niversity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Durnbaugh is the author of twO now standard source­ books on Brethren histOry, Emopean Origins of the Breth'ren (Elgin, Illinois, ([) 1958), and The Brethren in Colonial America (Elgin, Illinois, ([) 1967). At the present time he is working on a definitive histOry of the Church of the Breth­ ren in the United States. EDITOR: WINTER 1968-1969, Vol. XVIII, No, 2 Dr. Don Yoder EDITORIA L COMMITTEE: Dr. Earl F. Robacker Dr. J. William Frey Dr. Mac E. Barrick Contents Dr. John A. Hostetl er Dr. Maurice A. Mook Dr. Alta Schrock 2 The Swiss Bank House 111 Pennsylvania Dr. Phil Jack R OBERT C. BUCHER LeRoy Gensler EDITOR EM ERITUS: 12 Trance-Preaching 111 the United States Dr. Alfred L. hoemaker D ON Y ODER S UBSCRIPTION R ATES: 19 The Sleeping Preachers : $4.00 a year in the United States An Historical Study of the Role and Canada. Elsewhere fifty cents of Charisma in Amish Society a dditi o n a l for postage. Single H ARRY H. HILLER copies Sl.00. 32 A Centl'al Chimney Continental Log House j'vISS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: H ENRY GLASS IE The Editor will be glad to consider MSS and photOgraphs sent with a 4·0 The Gel'man Journalist and view to publication. When unsu it­ the DWlker Love-Feast able, and if accompanied by renun D ONALD F . D URNBAUGH postage, every care will be exer­ cised tOward their return, although Christmas Customs : no responsibility for their safety is assumed. FOLK-CULTURAL QUESTIONNAIRE No. 1 0 (Imide Back Cover) PEN S Y L V A N I A FOLKLIFE, Contributors to this Issue Winter 1968, Vol. 18, o. 2, pub­ lished quarterly by the Pennsyl­ (Imide Front Cover) vania Folklife Society, Inc., Lan­ caster, Pennsylvania. Subscriptions and business correspondence: Box COVER: Swiss Bank House. Center: V ertical elevation show­ 1053, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Edi­ ing basic f eatures alld topographical orientation of tOrial correspondence: Dr. Don ty pical mid-78th CC' ntllr.v Swiss Bal1l-.. House in the L ebanoll-Lancaster COllnty areas of Pennsylvania. Yoder, College Hall , Box 36, Uni­ Note that main door enters IIpper (living) level, versi ty of Pennsylva nia, Philadel­ IV hi/e sC'condary cloor C' nlers kitch C' 1I on lower level. phia, Pennsylva nia 19104. Contents Sketch by Arthur Sullivan of Woxall. P C' nnsy lvanill. copyrighted. Upper Right: c/ulC'Uer ROilS C'. Scha C'U C' rstown, L eb­ anon COlli ly, showill g aJ"{·h ed doorway 10 dist.illing Entered as second class matter area in basC' melll. ,"meer L efl: Th C' illal;;; ROllsC', (£ at Lancaster, Pennsy lvania. II"wr e common lal er pal/ern fur Ih e wiss Bank House. Riedl 10[: ballh"/IOL/se bllill ill/ a a sl (>(' p ballk lI'ilf, IIppl'r alld IOlrer cookill[: ar(>(/s alld ollisidl' si olle siai/"l("(/\' ("o ll.lI (Ylill{{ Ih e IIt'o ll'l·pl s. T, o("a l (>(1 II ~ar SI01u·h sbllrg. L eblllloll CO IIII/Y. PPIIIIsyll"alliu. Th (> Srlwef]pr hOllsP bllill by lohn Miley. ("ir(" 11 7736. UlI1eSIOTl I' ('oIlSlrll (" ' liol1 Icilh r (>d IiII' roof originally, filS If, <, \X T e inballC'rIl Iradilioll. Arclr ed doo/"lUly on lefl {I'llds 10 cooh' illg firpplac(', arclr('d c/oor in ga.b l e l eads 10 diMilling area bdLincl fireplo(·e. Tire almollry al 11r (, Eplrralll Cloisl er , also blLilt by 101111 JUile\". c ir("a 7738. Large arclr ("ellar ill Ihl' b(lI/k. ollisic/(' sloll (' slaincay ( FreiLrcppc) COlIlIl'ctillg main door on IIpp('r l('I,<, 1 10 ('l'lIl1r door on 100 cer [('vel n ear gable <' lid. The almollry lIlaill 1' 1111"1111 ("(> all upper l l'v(> ShOICill[: I y ,;i('(d' frolll door and slairrva), II auic local('d IIILder oL'(' r//lIIIg ( por("h ) . 2 The Swiss Banl~ House in Pennsylvania By ROBERT c . BUCHER How well I remember standing in the meadow of the house" and ro the reason for writing this article on the su b­ Alexander Schaeffer farm in Schaeffersrown in 1960 looking ject. at the tWO wide arched doorways of the 1736 house built In this article I wanr ro tell how the bank house was by John Miley, architect of the Ephrata Cloister buildings. idenrified, how its function and cultural background were Clarence Kulp, Jr., H arry Stauffer, Samuel H eller and I revealed, where it is located geographically and what we were speculating as ro the reason for the two wide doorways know of the folk-culture associated with it. The best known near the western corner of the cellar and Mr. Stauffer sug­ houses will be described and others will be referred ro as gested that it was inrended for use by the old one-horse worthy of study. carr. Some of us thought the width was required for mov­ This work is inrended as a description of the Swiss bank ing large wooden barrels in the processing of distilled house in general, with a menrion of the Swiss W einbauern beverages. house in particular. It is hoped that it will lay the founda­ In eight years of week-end traveling ro phorograph our tion for a definitive study of this European house-type and 18th Cenrury houses and farmsteads in eastern and cenrral will result in future articles covering the Swiss Weinbauern Pennsylvania, Clarence and I had never seen a house like house in America and covering Swiss bank houses as a this one. Harry Stauffer and Mr. H eller began their phoro­ group. It is our hope that folk-cultural studies now active graphy before 1920 and could offer no positive explanation in the Shenandoah Valley, in the Mid-West, in other parts for this unusual and very inreresting structure. of the United States and in Canada, will be assisted in We all agreed on one thing-it was a bank house and idenrifying the Pennsylvania Dutch culture as it spread was built with its gable end in the bank. This was the from Southern Pennsylvania, and will be stimulated to beginning of the study of our Pennsylvania bank houses, report the spread of the culrure and its typical buildings which has led ro the more definitive term "Swiss bank in a more accurate and authenric manner. LEHIGH / ./ " ,,- --- ... ...... ~COUNTY / / ...... ..' .. .~ / \ """' .,. .. : / LEBANON. ·· ·· ....... .' ~ / BUCKS .. ,,' " .' : "- \ .. ' CO' . ·u·''''N TY. ••••••• ~~ :.\ 8.all~ ............. COUNTY .\' ... ... \ .. ., ~.. 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