An L-shaped hewn-log house, overall dimensions 23' x 31', consisting of a one-and-one-half-story, side-gable main pen and a smaller gabled one-story pen containing the kitchen, set perpendicular to the main block. The half-dovetail-notched hewn planks are up to 22" wide, the foundation is fieldstone, and the roofs are clad in wood shingles. Each pen has an exterior stone chimney. The front has a full-facade, shed-roofed porch, and the kitchen has a shed-roof extension over a side porch. Furnished interior has sawn board floors. Moved to the Oconaluftee site from the Indian Creek/Thomas Divide area, north of Bryson City, North Carolina, between 1952 and 1953.
U.S. National Park Service
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