New Dogtrot Cabin Added to Park
This century-old "dogtrot"
style log cabin was recently moved to the museum's park. We
are grateful to Mr. Julius Myrick of Myrick House Movers and Mr. Danny
Hall for making the move possible. We have the cabin because
Mrs. Lillian Van Houten, a Niceville resident, donated it to
us. A great big THANK YOU to each of them.
"I'm so happy that it's not going to be torn down," explained Vivian Van Houten. "My mother was born in the cabin in 1912, and when I found out about the museum, I thought, 'that's where mama's cabin need to go.' " While the exact date of consturction is unknown, land records indicate the property where the cabin stood was awarded to James W. Kennedy who sold the cabin and surrounding property in 1906 to James A Elliott, an ancestor of Van Houten's. The land was at that time located in Santa Rosa County. Today the site is in the northern edge of Okaloosa County on Charles Booker Road. Across the road is the Alabama state line, near the Bradley community. The two room construction is known as a dogtrot style, where two single-room cabins are joined together by a covered open-air-passageway. Both rooms are covered with a common roof and each has its own entrance. The breezeway, or dog trot, not only links the two cabins, but serves as an outdoor sitting are. There were also additional porches that have been added to both sides of the cabin. [Quoted from article my Ann Spann in the Crestview News Bulletin.]
"I'm so happy that it's not going to be torn down," explained Vivian Van Houten. "My mother was born in the cabin in 1912, and when I found out about the museum, I thought, 'that's where mama's cabin need to go.' " While the exact date of consturction is unknown, land records indicate the property where the cabin stood was awarded to James W. Kennedy who sold the cabin and surrounding property in 1906 to James A Elliott, an ancestor of Van Houten's. The land was at that time located in Santa Rosa County. Today the site is in the northern edge of Okaloosa County on Charles Booker Road. Across the road is the Alabama state line, near the Bradley community. The two room construction is known as a dogtrot style, where two single-room cabins are joined together by a covered open-air-passageway. Both rooms are covered with a common roof and each has its own entrance. The breezeway, or dog trot, not only links the two cabins, but serves as an outdoor sitting are. There were also additional porches that have been added to both sides of the cabin. [Quoted from article my Ann Spann in the Crestview News Bulletin.]
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