Built 1925 (1925) NRHP Reference # 03000390 Area 4,500 m² | Architectural style Rustic Opened 1925 Added to NRHP 9 May 2003 | |
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Location 226 Lower Lake Rd., Highlands, North Carolina Similar Blue Ridge Mountains, Quarry Falls, Dry Falls, Cullasaja Falls, Cliffside Lake Recreatio | ||
The Baldwin-Coker Cottage is a historic house at 266 Lower Lake Road in Highlands, North Carolina. The Rustic-style 1-1/2 story log house was designed and built in 1925 by James John Baldwin, an architect from Anderson, South Carolina. The cottage is important as a prototype for a number of later houses that were built by members of the construction crew. The walls are constructed of notched logs, whose ends project at random-length intervals, both at the corners of the house, and from the interior, where logs are also used to partition the inside space. The house is topped by a side-gable wood shingle roof. The main gable ends, and the gables of the dormers, are clad in board-and-batten siding. A porch with naturalistic limb-and-twig railings spans the width of the main facade.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.