Southern Dog-Trot Cabin: In the South, a cabin design that has a full breezeway between the front and back is call a "dogtrot cabin". Parents and newborns lived in the left side, and...

rdfarr Loc: Floridian living in AL

In the South, a cabin design that has a full breezeway between the front and back is call a "dogtrot cabin".
Parents and newborns lived in the left side, and kids lived on the opposite of the cabin.
My maternal grandparents lived in such a cabin until they had a more traditional one was built.

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PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

rdfarr wrote:

In the South, a cabin design that has a full breezeway between the front and back is call a "dogtrot cabin".
Parents and newborns lived in the left side, and kids lived on the opposite of the cabin.
My maternal grandparents lived in such a cabin until they had a more traditional one was built.

Interesting info and great image. Thanks for sharing.

rdfarr Loc: Floridian living in AL

Thanks for commenting. The cabin is located outside a nearby town, Tallassee, AL, and maintained by the city.

frankie c Loc: Lake Havasu CIty, AZ

rdfarr wrote:

In the South, a cabin design that has a full breezeway between the front and back is call a "dogtrot cabin".
Parents and newborns lived in the left side, and kids lived on the opposite of the cabin.
My maternal grandparents lived in such a cabin until they had a more traditional one was built.

Stunning Shot, and great story to go with it. Thanks for sharing.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Nice shot and a nicely maintained cabin.

In addition the crawl way under the house was where the dogs actually lived.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

rdfarr wrote:

In the South, a cabin design that has a full breezeway between the front and back is call a "dogtrot cabin".
Parents and newborns lived in the left side, and kids lived on the opposite of the cabin.
My maternal grandparents lived in such a cabin until they had a more traditional one was built.

Nice shot Rhett

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Beautiful image Rhett and interesting narrative!

Stash Loc: South Central Massachusetts

Wanda Krack Loc: Tennessee, USA

LOL, a good way to live separate from the 'kids' from time to time! Nice shot.

Bill 45

Was not the design of that kind of cabin was to keep the cabin cool in the summer? Was not the design itself come from the Cherokee people?

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice angle--good shot of the cabin.

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

Super nice.

rayclay Loc: Arab, AL., USA

I was born in 1935 in such a house in north Alabama. I did not know it was logs until we began tearing it down in 1949. Identical fireplaces in each room. About 1880 shed type rooms were added on rear of each room as now they had a cook stove and eating area. The boys slept in other shed/lean-to and it later became storage with shelving for canned goods of which they put up 6-700 jars (pints, quarts and 1/2 gallon sizes) The first part(s) were built in early 1850's and original forty acres is still in our family as a working farm.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Excellent image, enjoyed the info.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Great shot, Rhett.