I wish the quality of these images were better, but this is a heavily shaded location and I had to settle for what I could get. These photographs date to 2012 so I’m not certain this house is still extant. But what a great house it is, a textbook example of the workhorse of the tenant farm era, the single-pen cottage. This one had a chimney that would have cost more than the house, undoubtedly. It served its purpose of shelter and warmth, but gave little comfort otherwise. Houses of this type were often built in rows, on a larger farm, reminiscent of the arrangement of slave dwellings on earlier plantations. Of course, a small farmer may have only had one or two such houses on his property. I know nothing about this one, except that I think it was worth documenting.