The house was designated as a county seat and courthouse in 1825 by the territorial legislature. The two-story dogtrot home of a pioneer leader is the oldest known standing structure in the state. Īround 1820, the Jacob Wolf House in Norfork, was constructed. The Arkansas Post Museum includes the Refeld-Hinman home, a log-cabin dogtrot house built in 1877. The house was moved to Washington, Arkansas, and has undergone restoration. His wife Hesky maintained the farm after his death. The Noel Owen Neal House was built in 1840 near Nashville. The house was built sometime between the 1850s to 1860s and was later used at The Garden of Allah dude ranch. The original core of the adobe house is still standing and being used as a Visitor Center for a nature preserve. Arizona Īnother example of a dogtrot house can be viewed at the old Brill ranch (Arizona state historical site), 3 miles\5 kilometers south of Wickenburg, Arizona. The John Looney House in Ashville, Alabama, is a rare example of a two-story dogtrot house built in the 1820s. The John Looney House, Ashville, Alabama, in 2010 Surviving public and notable homes Alabama Although some houses had only the open central hall and flanking rooms, most dogtrots had full-width porches to the front and/or rear. The stairway was most commonly placed in one or both of the main rooms, although it was sometimes placed in the open hallway. If the house was 1½ or the rarer two stories, the necessary staircase was usually at least partially enclosed or boxed in. Chimneys were almost always located at each gable end of the house, with each serving one of the two main rooms. Secondary characteristics of the dogtrot house includes placement of the chimneys, staircases, and porches.
BREEZE WAY WINDOWS
The combination of the breezeway and open windows in the rooms of the house created air currents which pulled cooler outside air into the living quarters efficiently in the pre-air conditioning era.
The breezeway provided a cooler covered area for sitting. The breezeway through the center of the house is a unique feature, with rooms of the house opening into the breezeway.
Enclosed shed rooms are also sometimes found at the front, although a shed-roof front porch is the most common form. Additional rooms usually take the form of a semidetached ell or shed flanking the hall, most commonly at the rear. The primary characteristics of a dogtrot house is that it is typically one story (although 1 + 1⁄ 2-story and more-rare two-story examples survive), and has at least two rooms averaging between 18 and 20 feet (5.5 and 6.1 m) wide that each flank an open-ended central hall.
Typically, one cabin was used for cooking and dining, while the other was used as a private living space, such as a bedroom. Urban variation of a "dog-trot": Creole cottage row house with narrow dogtrot, New OrleansĪ dogtrot house historically consisted of two log cabins connected by a breezeway or "dogtrot", all under a common roof.
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