Joseph Barton Cabin

Barton Cabin


The Barton Cabin in the early Bluff days.

The Barton Cabin was the first structure built when the Hole-in-the-Rocker group arrived in 1880. It is a log cabin, and the oldest historic building in Bluff. It has a well which was the first supply of water to the community. This cabin was built by Joseph F. Barton and his wife Harriet Ann Richards.

Harriet Ann Richards and Joseph F. Barton

Inside the cabin, the walls and ceiling were lined with a thin white cloth. A cloth like this was often used to cover the walls of a log house, since it can taken down, washed, and then put back up. Shelves stood along the walls of one bedroom and were filled with books.

The Barton cabin in 1997. Rye Wojcik Photos.

Today the Barton cabin represents the sole surviving feature of the earliest architecture of Bluff. It retains the integrity of its original location, design, setting, material, workmanship, feeling, and association.

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San Juan High School

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