This is another amazing survivor of one of the most enduring utilitarian house types in Georgia. The saddlebag, a double-pen form, was almost always built for tenant purposes and those that remain are a reminder of lost agricultural and economic practices. The requirements of manual labor that have been vastly reduced by modern machinery meant that large landowners housed their laborers and counted that incentive as part of their pay. Sharecropping was barely better than indentured servitude and was a common form of employment. I don’t romanticize that world but I will always work to document its built environment.

This example has a nice shed room across the rear, an addition commonly found with this form.