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Show 212 Utah Historical Quarterly Clockwise from top left: mud concrete house in Paragonah, detail of a stud-frame house infilled with mortar and stone, typical log structures. Utah State Historical Society collections. tures existed in Utah, and examples of log wardhouses, schools, cabins, and houses still stand.8 Like the dugout and the adobe cabin, the log cabin was a temporary shelter, planned for eventual use as an outbuilding or incorporated into a new house. The simple cabin form of logs was similar to the adobe cabin in roof pitch, size, and location of the main entrance and window openings. The exterior chimney of fieldstone, cobblestone, or later, brick, was located in the center of one of the gable ends. The interior walls of the cabin were often plastered by nailing willow branches onto the log surface to act as lath and then whitewashed. Cottonwood was commonly used in early log construction, especially near creeks. It was not as straight nor as long as other woods and was therefore inferior to the wood of coniferous trees. Since early "Early examples include the Miles Goodyear cabin (1845) now located in Tabernacle Park, Ogden, and the Osmyn Deuel cabin (1847) in Temple Square, Salt Lake City. |
