I hope that you find a warm place to gather and celebrate with your family this Christmas holiday. What better place than a cabin in the snow. Merry Christmas !
This cabin is part of a tour called “Lehigh County Log Cabin Trail” which winds its way across Lehigh County and visits twenty one different log cabins. Information on the cabin trail can be found on this page.
This representative Germanic log cabin was built in ca 1739-1741 by Abraham Kirper (or Carper) on land that that was bought in 1738. Later the cabin and 294 acres were acquired by Peter Bogert whose family owned the property for five generations. In the 1930s, Robert A. Young owned the land and had some restoration done to the clapboard-sided log cabin, and in 1938 additional restoration was completed by the Allentown Parks Department with the assistance of Allentown architects John K. Heyl and William D. Miller.
The cabin is a story-and-a-half “bank” house moved to its current location from a hilltop across 24th Street. It is believed the current compass orientation of the building is rotated 180 degrees from the original orientation—perhaps to provide a view of nearby Bogert’s Covered Bridge Bridge from the cabin’s front porch. It is one of three log structures preserved in the City of Allentown’s park system (there are four within the City of Allentown). It rests in a lovely setting beside the 1841 Bogert’s Bridge† (one of the oldest remaining covered bridges in Lehigh County), in part of Allentown’s extensive park system, after being moved to its current location from a nearby hillside. Hunters Cabin contains two rooms, plus an overhead loft, and a basement.
I shot this on Christmas Eve (2009) as seven bracketed RAW frames and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image before finally applying Topaz Adjust to the image in order to bring out the wood grain and stone texture on the cabin.
