The upper floors of the buildings had to be vacated, and partitions of unpainted boards went up to cut off the stairways.

Now he could see his cabin, a long, four-roomed shack of plain, unpainted boards and weather-darkened shingles.

With this he sternly moved away from his bleak parents and their bleak home with its unpainted boards and unlovely windows.

Scattered along it were a series of old humpbacked trailers and dilapidated homes built of unpainted boards or logs.

He was backing his wagon round to the door of the calf house and as the high unpainted boards darkened the entrance the atmosphere of gloom deepened.

There were at least 23 buildings scattered throughout Home of Truth, most with simple exteriors of unpainted board and batten or tar paper shingles.

I stumbled randomly into a tavern, a two-story structure of unpainted boards.

Drops of Jefferson's blood spotted the unpainted boards of the glassed-in back porch.

LEAD: The juke joint is nameless, a shack made of unpainted boards sitting just off a county road surrounded by cotton fields.

Enraptured, he walked slowly toward it, and as he reached it his hand came in contact with rough, unpainted boards that blocked his way.