West Cabin

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The West Cabin is a log cabin in Davidson County in the US state of Tennessee , which was built between 1798 and 1800 by the future President Andrew Jackson and his wife.

Photograph of the hut, after 1933
Interior view of the south room, with west window and fireplace

It was built by Andrew and Rachel Jackson on the land known as The Hermitage as a two-story building made of horizontally stored tree trunks. Only the wood of the tulip tree was used. The building, now known as the West Cabin , was later reduced by one story. After the mansion, the Hermitage Mansion , was built between 1819 and 1821, the hut became quarters for some of the black slaves working on the Jackson plantation .

North elevation
South view

The connection between the log cabin and Andrew Jackson is thanks to the preservation of the building that was once typical of central and eastern Tennessee. The image of the hut also ensured that the president was associated with a modest, rural origin. After Jackson's tenure, log cabins became a symbol of early settlement, the claiming of the land beyond the Appalachians , but also the unlimited opportunities for advancement in American society and the frontier mentality. The mansion was hardly in the public consciousness anymore, because the expression of the simple and modest does not fit in with the laborious work of the main house, but just as little with the furnishing of the house with luxurious goods from New Orleans and Philadelphia .

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