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Referring to the recording of monuments of country (folk) building carried out by the Monuments Documentation Centre in Warsaw, the article gives some comments which arise on using and preparing index cards. The recording of architectural monuments was started in 1959 and done on the basis of the so called „green card” introduced at that time. In view of more urgent conservation needs, country buildling was regarded to be of secondary importance. Its recording on a broader scale was commenced in the sixties with the help of voivodship conservators of monuments. Because the recording was not always done by persons with adequate professional qualifications or with due scrupulousness paid to the execution of the task, in many a case the material obtained is incomplete and does not reflect a real state of country building. The article points out shortcomings and basic mistakes made when characterizing the structures recorded. In order to emphasize the necessity of the fullest documentation of an object in the country, the author discussed in brief a pecularity of country building manifested i.a. by the fact that until today a farm continues to play its original function of being not only a place for living in but also a private workshop, developed and modernized according to actual needs. These facts put the conservation service before additional problems of organizational, legal and financial nature. Emphasis is also put on limited possibilities of protecting country building both in the open air and in specialistic museums. This situation requires an adequate and complete documentation on as many buildings as possible, because it is not possible to cover them all with conservation protection. The present recording of country buildings is based on an improved index card. Its most important points are columns Nos. 12 and 13. Point 13 concerning the history of the building includes information not only on the date o f the building’s erection but also all major rebuildings, especially those referring to the plan o f the interior, window and door openings and fire installation. Of importance to studies on the buildings, their location etc. is only a genuine and not secondary form of the structure. For similar reasons of importance is also the information in column 13 on the construction of the building. The most frequent shortcoming encountered on filling in this column is too laconic and unclear description of such important features of the buildings as roof construction, window and door openings, fire installation. The article contains some proposals on a more precise rendering o f the just mentioned parts of the building or illustrating constructional solutions by sketches and photographs. A need has also been pointed out to make collective cards for monumental complexes (part of a village street, barn street) and for structures similar in typology and construction (e.g. barns). In that case it is postulated to make cards for representative examples while the remaining structures (their addresses) could be specified in column 24 (comments). Attention was also drawn to a necessity of recording objects that make up the landscape just to mention fences, gates, country’s wells etc.
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