LYNFORD LARDNER CABIN, TREXLER MEMORIAL PARK

The Lynford Lardner Cabin, built c. 1746-1750 is located within Allentown’s Trexler Memorial Park. The story-and-a-half log cabin was used in the early twentieth century by General Harry C. Trexler, a local philanthropist, as a summer retreat on his Springhouse Farm (now Trexler Park). The General built substantial additions to the log structure but, in 1952, they were removed to restore the log building to its current, more historic appearance. The cabin has board-and-batten siding on the upper gable ends, early nine light (glass pane) sashes on the rear of the building, but six light sashes on the gable ends. The cabin is constructed over a spring which supplied drinking water to the building’s occupants.