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log house noun A dwelling built of whole or hewn logs, usually of one or two rooms. This term was rarely heard in the Smoky Mountains by the 1930s because frame construction had replaced log construction when lumber became widely available and the standard of living improved in the early 20th century.

1881 Pierson In the Brush 66 On reaching his house, I found three buildings—log-house, log-kitchen, and log-stable. 1937 Hall Coll (Bradley Fork NC) It was a log house that I was borned in. 1969 GSMNP-38 [I] stayed here till we moved that big old hewn log house down the country here. 1990 Morgan Log House E TN 19 After the Civil War the log house remained an important landscape feature in East Tennessee ... As with the larger Upland South region, it is difficult to be specific about the decline of log house construction in East Tennessee. In some areas log construction may have declined soon after the Civil War, but in other areas log house construction persisted into the present century. Ibid. 59 The persistence of log house construction in Blount County and East Tennessee until the late nineteenth-century reflects a cultural tradition of the area’s residents. Most of the nineteenth-century log houses were not built as temporary structures to be replaced shortly after construction by more substantial frame or brick buildings. On the contrary, the houses were generally well-constructed permanent buildings.