Log Cabin Village: A History and Guide: Searching Inside

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... during the middle of the nineteenth century. The educational value of the Log Cabin Village is enhanced.... cents. The Log Cabin Village is open to the public from 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Monday through Friday... Cabin Village, 2100 Log Cabin Village Lane, Fort Worth, Texas 76110. THE VILLAGE The pages which follow... place in the Log Cabin Village master plan. Photographs not only illustrate the log houses and aspects... CHAPTER 7 G The seven log houses in the Village were the pioneer homes of families

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... of the dogtrot "T" was observed in north-central Texas, and there are none at Log Cabin Village. A third kind... are found at Log Cabin Village, and they occur only infrequently in north-central Texas. Four examples were... joists for the second story usually rest three or four logs below the plate. At Log Cabin Village... in north-central Texas, but only three examples were detected in field research. The Pickard house at Log Cabin... Village is the surviving pen of what was originally a dogtrot ell house (Fig. D-l). All three pens

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... the house to Log Cabin Village. B-2. The Tompkins family and the log house. Photo courtesy of Log Cabin.... Photo courtesy of Log Cabin Village. 4 iuI~I Ill "i a Si! -l -i r 4# - - M -"~i r I r ~f... Village. B-3. Sarah Harbison Tompkins and John Baptist Tompkins in front of their log house, ca. 1893

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..., served as chairman for the opening. On Friday, April 15, the Log Cabin Village received its historical..., and rabbits, until accidents and vandalism made it necessary to reduce their number. This log cabin village... as guides. Under the leadership of Mrs. Erie, the Log Cabin Village has become a national attraction... a four-inch log. Board members voted on an admission fee of 25q for adults and 10 for children to help meet... to the Village. In the late 1960s approximately 12,000 to 16,000 schoolchildren visited the Village annually

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... and brick chimneys seen on most secondgeneration log dwellings. The homes on display at Log Cabin Village... the cabin in both height and square footage of living space. Contrary to the popular image, log houses were... and cannot be separated from it. They were unschooled men perpetuating tradi- 2-1. A typical log cabin, built... will not wholly ignore the humble log cabin, since it was derived from the same architectural heritage... not normally built at communal house raisings by amateurs. Most log houses were constructed by professional

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... of many people not only to display the houses of Log Cabin Village but to give their histories.... A glossary and bibliography extend the investigative range of the book and add to its interest. Log Cabin..., Jordan introduces the reader to techniques of construction and the varied heritage of the log house... that constitute the village. Drawings and photographs of the houses and their contents fill the pages... Village is a book to be enjoyed. Whether read for pleasure or knowledge, it will satisfy the reader

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... by hand for making most of the staple foods of the settlers' diet. The mill at Log Cabin Village... Cabin Village. The house probably had once had a north wall fireplace and a split shingle roof. Upon..., quarter-notched, one-room log house. It was originally one of the best-constructed homes on the Texas frontier... with livestock sheds attached, made it appear the most primitive of all the houses when it was first moved to Log... was converted into a grist mill to serve an educational function in the Village. THE GRIST MILL One of the most

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...'s Log Cabin Village are tributes to small groups of dedicated people who chose to swim against powerful... found at Log Cabin Village. The buildings at the Village are a fine sample, reflecting..., while it was fine and good for presidential candidates to be born in a log cabin, it was assuredly... to the "good life," to the city, to an industrial economy. - Log Houses in North Texas Folk houses have proven... work, and perseverance were involved. Log houses are more economically consumed as cords

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... had this floorplan (Fig. 4-3). 4-2. The Shaw house as it was first reconstructed in Log Cabin Village...- . .b ~ J~C ~L~;~:;-~,;P5?P "' Y There are no examples of the basic doublepen house at Log Cabin... Village. But a journey into the countryside in any direction from Fort Worth reveals many such structures..., both in frame and in log. In the north-central Texas area, thirteen percent of all log houses observed... was a typical single-pen log house. Later incorporation of the grist mill brought structural modifications

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...%" long Purchased by Log Cabin Village Because of the shape of the headboard, this is known as a "hooded... bonnet" cradle. It predates most of the objects in Log Cabin Village by more than one hundred years. i

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... brakes. Of 180 dwellings observed, only 19, or 11 percent, were saddle-notched, none in Log Cabin Village... at the Log Cabin Village, though the Pickard house in its original Parker County location did have a "V... by cutting depressions into both the top and bottom of the log, while the single saddle notch, the simpler... of the subtypes, has a depression cut only on one side of the log (Fig. 3-5). Both subtypes of the saddle notch... of the log drains rainwater better than the double type or the top-notched single type, since it lacks

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... Preface Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth's Forest Park came into existence through the combined..., mitre-dovetail, which was the most desirable in construction. To Cotten the log cabin told the story of man.... To preserve this log cabin frontier, which lasted only fifteen or twenty years in North Texas, Cotten... suggested that several communities preserve examples of their log cabin heritage. The idea encountered... businessman and civic leader in Weatherford. Cotten was intrigued by the structure of the North Texas log

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... log house at Old City Park in Dallas. None are found at the Log Cabin Village restoration. PLACEMENT... log. 4-6. The corner stairway in the Pickard house at Log Cabin Village is typical of stairways found... that a substantial number of log houses in north-central Texas lacked porches is a suggestion of the upper southern... porchlike structures, but we may have derived the log house porch from the West Indies or even Africa... feature of the log house floorplan occasionally found in north-central Texas is the "room on the porch

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... HISTORY OF THE HOUSE The house now standing in Log Cabin Village is one of several homes in Texas... at the age of 77. D-1. The William Sidney Pickard House in Log Cabin Village. Photo by Cirrus Bonneau. .S: r

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... the whole gamut of the log house culture is represented in the Village. While the committee was selecting... deteriorated, and City Board member Charles Haws later described the log cabin exhibit as just a "bunch of junk... scholarship for a study of the log cabin in Southwestern history was awarded by Schmid, as president.... Foster log home of two stories provided the ultimate in fashioning for a home of hewn logs. Thus... approval for the project. The Village then came under the care and direction of the City Park Department

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... Howard home was in good condition prior to its move to Log Cabin Village. HISTORY OF THE RESTORATION... in excellent condition when the house was moved to Log Cabin Village. The house was reconstructed using... that Hartsford Howard built this two-story handhewn log home since the family cannot be accurately placed in Hood

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... in Log Cabin Village 64-65, 110 craftsmen: and building of log houses, 8; work at Log Cabin Village..., Texas: log courthouse in, 39 Amon Carter Foundation: 106 Amon Carter Museum: 102 Anderson, Isaac: 57... apertures, placement of: in log houses, 29-30, 37 Appalachian Mountains: 3, 4, 6, 14, 16, 19, 21,34, 35, 36..., 40, 41 Arkansas: 4, 14, 18, 19, 34 Aubrey Reservoir: threatens old log houses, 41 Baccus family, John..., log. See log outbuildings Baxter, Ralph Baccus: 107 Bedford, Gordon: 70 beds: pictures of, 107

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... the structures at Log Cabin Village. The University of Texas Press, publisher of Texas Log Buildings. A Folk... in this book was derived from the "Texas Log Cabin Register," a collection housed in the North Texas State... Acknowledgments Most of the information concerning log structures in north-central Texas presented... documents pertaining to log buildings in Texas, is based on field observations by a great many researchers..., submitted illustrated reports on more than twenty-five log houses in his county. My own students at North

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... Log Cabin Village: 16, 18, 22, 23, 25-29. 46, 56, 58, 59, 63, 70, 78, 81, 97, 100, 108, 110, 113, 118... Cabin Village in, 1, 43 Fort Worth Parks and Recreation Department: 43 Foster, Eliza: 47 Foster, Henry... 142 cupboard, open: picture of, 84 Czechoslovakia: log houses in, 2, 10, 13 Dallas, Texas: 7, 29... Delaware: 2.4, 13, 16, 18, 19,25 Denton, Texas: log jail in, 39 Denton County, Texas: 1, 22, 35, 39..., B. A.: 93 Europe: log houses in, 2, 10, 13, 16, 21 Ferguson, Edith Davis: 66 Fields, Dr. Julian T

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... of the log cabin project. Faced with the disheveled appearance of the cabins in the "weed patch," Mrs... as chairman and Mrs. Joseph J. Minton as co-chairman. The proceeds of the sale went into the log cabin fund.... Brownlee professionally patched the log cabins and restored their traditional appearance and utility. He..., as chairman of the cabin furnishings committee, appealed for donations of items 100 years old or older. "Each.... In 1964, the restoration of the six log houses had gone far enough to permit an open house to view