429 Church Street Lancaster, PA
This little log house is a rare city survivor. Built in the late 1700s, its oak logs are now covered with wood siding.
The house is a classic Pennsylvania German settlers’ house, a Flurküchenhaus (corridor-kitchen house). Early Germanic houses, here, used central stoves to heat the home, while Anglo / British houses used gable fireplaces for heat, instead of a stove. Related Germanic houses include the 1719 Herr House and the settlers’ cabin at Landis Valley Museum
This house's central cooking fireplace was removed in the early 1900s. The shutters disappeared in the 1970s. But the dove-tailed oak logs are still here, protected from the weather by the old German siding. And the central chimney survives. So the house's memory of the Rhineland continues to this day.