In 1840, when log cabin building in the U. Even Asheville’s first courthouse, built in 1793, was said to have been a log building! “The availability of timber, the simple tools required for construction, and the possibility of individual construction” caused log-cabin construction to be the number one choice of construction utilized by pioneers moving into Western North Carolina after the Revolutionary War. Plus, the log cabins could be constructed by one person in a couple of weeks. The pioneers could simply stack the logs one upon the other, and they weren’t restrained by the need for nails or spikes to keep the structure together. The ingenuity of the log cabin was that the construction was extremely simple and required no more than an axe and maybe a saw. A surviving example of an early Swedish log cabin is the “Lower Swedish Cabin” in Drexell Hill, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, which was built sometime between the 1630s and the 1650s, “and still stands, relatively unaltered, from when it was constructed hundreds of years ago.” As new settlers arrived, log construction technology moved with those settlers down the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania and into the Shenandoah Valley and into the North Carolina Piedmont and Appalachian Mountains. “Many settled on the Delaware and around Maryland’s tidewater region,” writes, historian Judith Flanders, “and it is here that the first contemporary references to houses built of logs appear: a court record in 1662 mentions a “loged hows”, while in 1679, a Dutchman recorded a house in what is now New Jersey, built “according to the Swedish mode”. Historians have long debated the origins of log cabins in America, however modern-day consensus points to the log cabin being first brought to the new world by settlers from Sweden, where it was a traditional housing style. Let’s begin by first taking a brief look at the origins of the log cabin in America and Western North Carolina, and then we’ll move into its various reoccurrences in America’s architectural history. But of course, a “revival-style”, denotes a reoccurrence of an earlier architectural style. The building of the Thomas Wolfe Cabin (yes, I have conceded to using its moniker) is rooted in the early 1900’s “rustic revival” architectural movement, which in the 1920’s and 1930’s also morphed into the “Log Cabin Revival” movement, which in turn was proliferated by the rise in “tourists camps” and “tourists courts” (the precursors to the modern motel). How did this unassuming log cabin, called “The Thomas Wolfe Cabin”, come to be, and what is its architectural history? And why has the cabin become so famous and taken on the moniker “The Thomas Wolfe cabin”? Architecturally, the cabin represents and is a product of the enduring legacy of the “log cabin”, which has through a series of resurgence and revivals remained as both an iconic ymbol of America’s history, as well as a viable means of shelter. Lewis soccer fields in East Asheville, and which is now sadly in need of restoration, is famously known as “The Thomas Wolfe Cabin”, although Thomas Wolfe never owned it, and only lodged there for a few months during the summer of 1937. Occasionally during peak seasons, your cabin may not be ready until 4:00 pm.A small unassuming log cabin, which sits on a bluff just above the John B. Uber, taxies and Lyft are available for hire.Ĭheck in/out: check-in between 3 pm and 6 pm. Located between Business 19 and I-26 (aka 19-23). Three-acre wooded property within a commercial neighborhood. They will be able use the common laundry facility, fire pit and dog walk areas. Guest will have full access to their own individual porch and cabin. We accept a maximum of 2 pets - $15/night for one pet, and $25/night for two.īeautifully aged historic log cabins located just outside of Asheville. During the filming of the movie Thunder Road, this cabin was used as the dressing room. Includes cable TV, wireless broadband, air conditioning and coffee maker. Nestled on an upper hill, the cabin features a full kitchen, a wood-burning fireplace,two queen beds and a twin bed. Cabin 19 - The Goldview cabin enables you to take the family on a nostalgic journey, as you enjoy a wistful look back to simpler days.
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