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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER, JUNE 10, 1981 SUNSET NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1981 Ov litres TETJ SBioirt and Top Sale Ice Cffeam 40 off SIMs (selected items) T 4 points Cistom-Tailoffe- d S PIMDMEK mUfilE SPIECIIM, PMCE Hair Cut 3 bags gold 5 at fhe Elegmt fmwh or 38 South Main Street, Bountiful 292-275- 6 for Bad $ 1 Dad will love slicing into his cake n ice cream Fathers Day surprise. Order one in his favorite flavor. Well add his monogram. Only at Baskin-Robbin- $ ORDER EARLY THE LOG CABIN colonization of the Eastern seaboard. American architectural ingenuity is best exemplified by the adaptation to the various climatic social and economic conditions of the various regions of America. house of Mew England with its small windows, small rooms and The compact centralized, low ceilings adapted to Iona hard winters and relatively cool summers. It could be built of cither wood or or urban use. modified for either farm and masonry readily The much more extended house of the middle seaboard colonies with its basically Palladian plan; its hot weather features high ceilings, larger windows, porches and porticos got progressively more pronounced as it moved South. The stilted, airy pavilion of the Louisiana Trench, with Its parasol roof and the perinietral galleries and balconies to hide the house from the sun and rain and l.s great emphasis on effective ventilation was a necessity to the climate In the South. mud masonry hacienda of the Southwest with its thicK walls amt few The inward-turninwindows toward the outer world and the larger openings toward the inside patio was ideally suited to the semi-deseclimates of that region. climate of the RockThe log cabia small built with the materials at hand adapted well to the ies of Western America. Each of these houses was a masterpiece of preindustrial folk knowledge in which locally available materials and techniques were put to use to modify the environmental extremes of the various regions. The log cabin is the most characteristic architectural feature of the Pioneer West. The log cabin was actually an Invention of the Swedes, who brought it with them to Delaware in 1638. Yet knowledge ol it did not spread much beyond there until the 26th century. To build a single log cabin, 40 logs of proper size and length are required. A large oak or other suitable timber of straight grain and free from limbs is selected for clapboards for the roof These are four feet in inch thick. The floors, if other than the bare dirt was used, wete length, six to eight inches wide and of puncheons wood slabs two to three inches thick diessed on the upper surface onlv and laid directly for and chimneys were cut out alter the log walls wete up. iilass windows earth. the doors, Openings upon nails apwas dear, so windows were a luxury. There were no nails until the 1630s when machine-madand pegs were used in place of steel nails. peared. in fashions. Swedish an ax The several out were cabin notched with a design The comers of log otiginal was the dovetaii notch. Other types of notches include the sharp notch, the saddle notch, the square notch or the chamfer and notch. Lagoon's Pioneer Village Includes several types of log cabins. The Bigler Cabin came from the Nephi area and was constructed for the purpose of housing a spinning wired and large loom. I he F.iastus Bingham Loci Cabin is from the Morth Ogden area. Built in 1853. this cabin housed tire man who tirst disco ered tire mins log house with eral deposits in the Bingham Copper Mine. The Wanship Cabin is a home built in Summit County in about 1880. This sawed the first square notch corners. Thisa was log house has never had coat of paint or protective coating on the wood and the logs have weathered to the desireable "desert varnish.'' Pioneer Village is filled with history - whether it be about people, places, things or architecture. He learn A fascinating journey to about man and his relationship to the environment when we study his architecture. this past is awaiting the visitor to Lagoon s Pioneer Village, where history lives. ICE CREAM STORE 9 p I 530 South Main Bountiful 1 The Axe and the Log Bouse Before we leave the subject of axes, the reader will be interested in seeing just what was expected of the axe. Here are some standard notches often made with only the axe. e CAKE N ICE CREAM ONLY BASKIN-ROBBIN-S 295-993- The carpenter who builds a good house to defend us from Wind and Weather ; is far more serviceable than the curious carver who employs his art to please his fancy. from an old tool pamphlet 1719 Building Is, next to agriculture, America's largest production field. And it has been so since the f.nqlish s. 435 South State Clearfield 825-313- 1 |