Baldwin-Coker Cottage

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Baldwin-Coker Cottage
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Location226 Lower Lake Rd., Highlands, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°3′19″N83°11′13″W / 35.05528°N 83.18694°W / 35.05528; -83.18694 Coordinates: 35°3′19″N83°11′13″W / 35.05528°N 83.18694°W / 35.05528; -83.18694
Area1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built1925 (1925)
Built byJoe Webb
ArchitectJames John Baldwin
Architectural styleRustic
NRHP reference No. 03000390 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 9, 2003

The Baldwin-Coker Cottage is a historic house at 266 Lower Lake Road in Highlands, North Carolina. The Rustic-style 1+12-story log house was designed and built in 1925 by James John Baldwin, an architect from Anderson, South Carolina. The cottage is important as a prototype for a number of later houses that were built by members of the construction crew. The walls are constructed of notched logs, whose ends project at random-length intervals, both at the corners of the house, and from the interior, where logs are also used to partition the inside space. The house is topped by a side-gable wood shingle roof. The main gable ends, and the gables of the dormers, are clad in board-and-batten siding. A porch with naturalistic limb-and-twig railings spans the width of the main facade. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Baldwin-Coker Cottage" (PDF). North Carolina Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-05-27.