Addicks Cabin and Adamless Eden: Elkmont Historic District, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Oppermann JK. 2010. Addicks Cabin and Adamless Eden: Elkmont Historic District, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Historic Structure Report. National Park Service. Winston-Salem, NC
The Addicks Cabin is located near the northern end of the Appalachian Club complex in the community of Daisy Town. It is on the east side of the community’s main thoroughfare, Jakes Creek Road. It sits close to the road, its front façade roughly parallel to the road. Set close and slightly back on the north side of the cabin is a child’s playhouse known as Adamless Eden. The site has extensive amounts of stone walkways, patios, garden walls and other garden features. Previous studies concluded that the Addicks Cabin had its start on this site beginning about 1910. About that time, a number of the small pre-fab housing units being used in the Elkmont work camps. For the executives of the railroad and lumber companies, these small houses were temporary shelter while fishing and hunting. The common name for these pre-fab units was “set-off houses.” Apparently, they came in a variety of configurations but all were small in size. At some point, three set-off houses were assembled side-by-side to create the main block of what is now the Addicks Cabin.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Oppermann, Joseph
- Date of Issue
- 2010
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- Addicks, APHN, Appalachian Club, Appalachian Highlands Network, Daisy Town, Daisytown, Elkmont, Elkmont Historic District, General Management Plan, GMP, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, GRSM, historic structure report, HSR, Ijams, Jakes Creek, Little River Lumber Company, memorandum of agreement, MOA, SER, Sevier County, Southeast Region, Spence
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Human Use | Cultural Landscapes | Cultural Landscapes , CRIS-HS: 264251: Elkmont Cabin #5 , CRIS-HS: 501455: Elkmont Cabin #5A