Mayo Cabin and Mayo Servants' Quarters: Elkmont Historic District, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Oppermann JK. 2010. Mayo Cabin and Mayo Servants' Quarters: Elkmont Historic District, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Historic Structure Report. National Park Service. Winston-Salem, NC
The Mayo 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. Immediately behind, to the east, is the Levi Trentham Cabin and beyond that is the Mayo Servants’ Quarters. The site has stone steps and a walkway at the front of the house and stone retaining walls at the street as well as the rear of the property at the edge of a ravine. Previous studies concluded that the Mayo Cabin had its start on this site 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, two set-off houses were assembled side-by-side to create the main block of what is now the Mayo Cabin. The Mayo Servants’ Quarters may also have its origin based in the set-off house tradition. The quarters consist of three rooms, a single large room in front with two small rooms behind, one a bathroom and the other the bedroom. All three are made of box-frame construction.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Oppermann, Joseph
- Date of Issue
- 2010
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- 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, Jakes Creek, Little River Lumber Company, Mayo, memorandum of agreement, MOA, SER, Sevier County, Southeast Region, Townsend, Trentham
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Human Use | Cultural Landscapes | Cultural Landscapes , CRIS-HS: 933329: Elkmont Cabin #7 (933329) , CRIS-HS: 933283: Elkmont Cabin #7B