J.B. Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House” is about a different sort of movement, cultural and geographical rather than mechanical. First published in 1953 in Landscape, the journal founded and long-edited by Jackson, it was republished in 2011 in Places Journal, a dependably excellent source for public scholarship on the built environment. As the Places editors write, it “explores the relationship of house building to cultural values over three centuries and across the American continent.” Enjoy it here.
Image above, Frances Flora Bond Palmer, Across the Continent, Westward the Course of Empire takes its way, 1868. Cover image from the original publication of “The Westward-Moving House.”
