Saddlebag Cottage
A widely used method of extending a 1- or 1 1/2—story single-pen log cabin was to add another pen, its gable set up to the chimney end of the original structure. This method of enlargement produced a central-chimney dwelling two rooms wide and one room deep. The plan was widely replicated in the nineteenth century in frame construction. L and T extensions were common. Morrison 1952, 168; Kniffen 1965, 562; Newton 1971, 7; Ieane and Purcell 1978, 18; Marshall 1981, 41; Walker 1981, 5o; McAlester and McAlester 1984, 83, 95; Noble 1984, 116. (Jakle, 1989)