You are here

Western Pennsylvania » Rolling Hills and Rolling Mills » Butler County » Saxonburg and Vicinity » Cooper Cabin

Cooper Cabin

-A A +A
c. 1810, with additions. 199 Cooper Rd., 1.5 miles northeast of Saxonburg

Cooper Cabin, one of the oldest houses in Butler County, is an excellent example of the log structures that once dotted this landscape. Sam Cooper bought the land with the shell of the unfinished house in 1811 or 1812, and added the doors, windows, roof, and other essentials. Soon after 1812, he built a spinning house behind the main house. After the Civil War, descendant John Cooper added a two-story addition to the main house on the north elevation. Several generations of the family remained here until 1963; nine years later, the house was purchased by the Butler County Historical Society. The society installed a new floor in the main room, replaced the clay chinking with cement and the water-damaged logs at the base of the south and west elevations, and removed the raw lumber partition that divided the first floor between living area and bedrooms. It is used as an educational facility and to host a Cooper family reunion every year.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lu Donnelly et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

McGrady Farm
Valley Mills (Mickey's Mills)
The Mansion (Ernie's Esquire, Phillips's Hall)
Succop Conservancy (Marcraig Farm, Maharg Farm)
Grace at Calvary Lutheran Church (Calvary Evangelical Presbyterian Church)

Citation

Lu Donnelly et al., "Cooper Cabin", [Cabot, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-BU20.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 1

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 182-182.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,