Architecture

Farm Museum

2024-06-062024-06-06Sherry Felix13 Comments

The Mountain Farm Museum is a collection of farm buildings assembled from locations throughout the Great Smoky Mountains Park. Visitors can explore a log farmhouse, barn, apple house, springhouse, and a working blacksmith shop to get a sense of how families may have lived one hundred years ago. Most of the structures were built in the late 19th century and were moved here in the 1950s. The Davis House offers a rare chance to view a log house built from chestnut wood before the chestnut blight decimated the American Chestnut in our forests during the 1930s and early 1940s. The museum is adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.

For Thursday Doors https://nofacilities.com/2024/06/06/carnegie-science-center/

Covered Bridges in Tennessee

2024-06-032024-05-16Sherry Felix8 Comments

For a change of scenery we explored the area for covered bridges. We saw two of the 6 in this list: List of covered bridges in Tennessee – Wikipedia. The countryside is very lovely in Sevier County. Included are two old houses at the end.

Emert’s Cove Covered Bridge, Sevierville TN 4/25/2024

Cades Cove Doors

2024-05-302024-05-30Sherry Felix13 Comments

I did 5 posts about Cades Cove starting on May 21 (see right side menu bar for links to the posts). Historicbuildings/cades-cove.html

This is the last one from Tennessee with old doors for Thursday Doors https://nofacilities.com/2024/05/30/on-board-the-delta-pearl/.

Cades Cove Cabins 2 of 2

2024-05-262024-05-13Sherry Felix8 Comments

Built in 1866, the Elijah Oliver Place is one of the oldest surviving structures in Cades Cove. After the original farm was destroyed during the U.S. Civil War, Elijah Oliver rebuilt and created this historic farmhouse. Today, visitors can tour the house, gaining insights into the past while appreciating its significance as a National Register of Historic Places site.

The little room on the side was built for guests.

Elijah Oliver Place, Cades Cove, Great Smokey Mts 4/21/2024

Cades Cove Cabins 1 of 2

2024-05-252024-05-13Sherry Felix6 Comments

We stopped and explored many of the old cabins on our drive around Cades Cove in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Here is a bit of the History of Cades Cove – Great Smoky Mountains National Park (nps.gov). And here is a page with information about 12 Historical Structures in Cades Cove.