Bethabara Log House, c. 1816

(Look at that blue sky!)

Again with the shutters to keep out the cold and the Indians.  There's not much said about this house except that it was constructed about 1816.  It's directly across the road from the palisade fort and began as a Federal House that was later modified in the Greek-Revival style.  Kinda funny thinking of a log home as "Greek-Revival."  Notice the evenly spaced "notches" above and below the door.  Those are cross beams supporting the floors.  I'm guessin' they used rock for the foundation up to 3-4 feet because of snow, wood rot, and termites...  If you click on the picture I think you can enlarge it and see the corners where the logs are cut to "interlock" making for a more solid structure.

This is the back side of the house.  Notice the outside entrance to the root cellar and the water well.  You can see the walls of the fort out front.  I love the moss on the roof.  It's probably not good for the roof, but it's good for me.  Did you know moss grows only on the north side of trees and roofs and things - in the Northern Hemisphere, that is.  In the Southern Hemisphere it grows on the south side.  (Now if you're lost in the woods on a cloudy day and can't tell north from south, east from west, just find a mossy tree trunk and you're home free!  If you know which hemisphere you're in ...)