Baldwin-Coker Cottage
The Baldwin-Coker Cottage is a historic house at 266 Lower Lake Road in Highlands, North Carolina. The Rustic-style 1-1/2 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]
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| Location | 226 Lower Lake Rd., Highlands, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°3′19″N 83°11′13″W |
| Area | 1.1 acres (0.45 ha) |
| Built | 1925 |
| Built by | Joe Webb |
| Architect | James John Baldwin |
| Architectural style | Rustic |
| NRHP reference No. | 03000390[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 9, 2003 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- "NRHP nomination for Baldwin-Coker Cottage" (PDF). North Carolina Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
