Kecskés Péter (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum Közleményei 1. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1980)

Tanulmányok - BALASSA M. IVÁN : Dél-Borsod település- és építéstörténetének vázlata (A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum Közép-Tiszavidék tájegysége)

Plain type of. This living house will be represented by a building that is to be removed from Igrici to the Open Air Mseum. Besides the oven in the room we found during dismantling another oven in the kitchen and this arrangement corresponds to those ones explored in villages, destroyed by Turks, in the Great Plain dated from the 17.-th or earlier centuries. The somewhat earlier living-house from Mezőkövesd dating from the 19.-th century was found to be correspondent to the Great Hungarian Plain type of house in its present form but its original form could be related to the North Hungarian type. Outlining the developement in the 19.-th century it can be stated that along with the disorganization of garden curtilages there began an evolutional process from the midcentury, that resulted in two different living-house types one of them is the gentry, well-to-do peasant's house and the other one is the middle-peasant's house. The evolution of these living-houses ends up the developing of building crafts that can be considered as vernacular architecture in the region. If we take into consideration the evolution of these buildings and the existance and desorganization of garden-curtilages, the Middle-Tisza region turnes out to be capable of showing the social history of rural life in the second half ot the 19.-th century. The four living-houses, parish-hall and farm buildings (shed and chaff barn) are most appropriate for the display of the history of building crafts and forms of settling. They are most, convenient for representing the social history of vernacular life and the conventional rural way of life.