Tiny Houses

This gallery, which accompanies our "Tiny Houses" blog, is for those who enjoy looking at diminutive architecture, which is a big thing today with television shows and whole youtube channels dedicated to the topic. Our online Digital Collections include photographs of all kinds of houses and buildings, and these small ones are nice to look at all together. Unfortunately, cataloging protocol doesn't allow for "tiny" or "small" because ultimately the terms are subjective and man skew the neutral tone in our cataloging, so it's difficult to find them without some searching.

 

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tiny houses
log cabins
primitive dwellings
First house in Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colorado; house is possibly Robert Womack's cabin in Fremont (prior to Cripple Creek incorporation) or Andy Frazier's cabin in Squaw Gulch; the one-story rounded log cabin built into the hillside has a low gable sod roof; three men wearing three-piece suits and knee high boots pose outside cabin; one man leans on miner's pick while another man, wearing a derby hat, sits on stump; additional picks and shovel are near front side entrance of cabin.
A prospector with a sledgehammer stands outside his chink and log cabin in Teller County, Colorado; shows a cast-iron stove outside the door of the cabin, a jug, broom, lunch pail, pans, cans, and a dog and her puppies under a table.
Harry Leonard and Spencer Penrose stand in front of Tutt and Penrose cabin, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one-story log cabin built in 1891 with low gable and sod roof; two saddled horses are teethered to corner of cabin; cabin includes stovepipe and wooden plank leading to front door; sparsely settled hillsides are in the background.
A miner sits outside a crudely built log cabin, Gunnison, Colorado, with his pick ax and shovel. The shack is known as the Sylvester Richardson cabin and the first one in town. The structure has logs of varying sizes chinked with mud, a low sagging front gable roof, hewn log front door and window opening.
View of Grand Junction Town & Development Company's first office, on 2nd (Second) and Ute Streets, in Grand Junction, Colorado, with R.D. Mobley and Mrs. Jackson posed in front of the small one-room log cabin with sod roof. A "dress making" sign is attached to the cabin and a pile of firewood is between two posts supporting wire or string. Outhouses in back of the cabin show. The cabin is thought to be the first structure built in Grand Junction with R.D. Mobley the first postmaster.
Two small girls stand in the open gateway of a wood fence, in front of a log house, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado.
View of the Log Cabin, one of the first buildings built in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Governor Hunt built This cabin, when the Denver and Rio Grande railway arrived, in October 1871, it became the station restaurant. Identified figures, extreme left to right are: Governor Hunt, Mrs. Elisabeth Hunt McDowell (Hunt's daughter) Ed Eaton, Mrs. Helen McDowell Malhern, Major John H. McDowell (Hunt's son-in-law.) The McDowell's ran the restaurant.
Dutch Mill Cottage Court
A miner, in a striped suit with a pick axe, poses next to a log cabin in possibly Clear Creek County, Colorado. The cabin has a gabled roof, a metal chimney, a dirt roof and a sign in a window that reads: "[C]rocker [& Co.] Crac[kers], Denver." Trees are near the cabin, steep slopes and talus are on mountains above timberline.
Shows the single story garage and pump house at the Evergreen Golf Course in Dedisse Park 2 miles west of Evergreen, Jefferson County, Colorado. The structure features a small covered porch with a overhang and vertical siding.
Two men on horseback and a third man stand in front of Geyser cabin in the La Sal Mountains, probably San Juan County, Utah. Signs read, "Geyser cabin," "La Sal and Geyser Express Office," and "Stage Office." Shows a tent beside the cabin and a carcass hanging from a corner of the cabin.
A prospector and guide, with a pipe and a dog and puppies, sits by his log cabin in Teller County, Colorado. The cabin is built into a hill and has a sod roof. A cast-iron wood stove is outside the cabin, a sign reads "Burros for hire." Shows a sawhorse and a can with a spout.
View of the Bootlegger's Cabin located at 3873 Colorado Road 46, Golden Gate Canyon State Park, Gilpin County, Colorado. This single story log cabin lies at the foot of Tremont Mountain and is an example of the hundreds of stills producing moonshine during Prohibition. The structure was added to the State Register in 1995.
Two men stand on a grassy slope outside a log cabin with a tar paper roof near the mining communty of Hahn's Peak (Routt County; also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado. Piles of boards litter the ground behind the cabin.
View of make-shift one-room cabin with sod roof, Gillett, Colorado. The small cabin is constructed of vertical logs, and a tar paper door and window. Two posts appear to support the gable roof. Materials around the cabin include: pile of scrap wood, wooden barrels, and a clothes line connected to the house.
Log cabin residence of Martha and Mary Crane, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one woman sits on upper part of split rail fence, another woman stands near fence gate and one man stands in front of cabin; former residence of Ralph Carr, ex-Governor of Colorado is in the background; residence includes stone fence or foundation, low gable roof with shingles, single entry at center, opened screen and front door, two double-sash plain windows; background includes outbuildings, mine tailings and surface buildings.
A woman holds a child's hand at the side of a log cabin, Goldfield, Teller County, Colorado. The front gable house is constructed of logs and hewn lumber and has one glass pane window, a mud and sod roof with a stove pipe. Several wooden boxes and crates are piled in front of the cabin and a full sack is hung on the side. A man in a horse-drawn wagon shows in distant far left.
Five miners stand outside of a log cabin in Dunnville, Colorado. Tents are in the background and debris and garbage litter the ground. Posters are attached to the side of the cabin.
Hughy, a man in cowboy boots and a vest, holds a pipe and sits in front of a wood cabin with a wooden shingle roof in Colorado or Utah. A wooden doghouse is by the porch. Metal buckets, a branding iron, a drill bit, bundles of wire, hats, horseshoes, and a workbench are near the cabin.
Men pose by a miner's cabin identified as Hepburn's cabin in Miners Basin in the La Sal Mountains (Grand County), Utah. Shows mining tools, ropes and a rifle. The log cabin has a stone chimney and a sod roof.
An unidentified man leans over, possibly to tie his shoe, in front of stone cabin in the foreground in This view near Jenny Lind Gulch, a tributary of South Boulder Creek near Apex in Gilpin County, Colorado. Pine trees line the rolling hills leading back to a ridge of mountains in the distance.
An unidentified woman stands at the side of a large, two-story log cabin in Chihuahua Gulch near Montezuma in Summit County, Colorado. A dirt road runs from the foreground past the cabin. Pine trees stand at the base of a mountain ridge in the background.
A boy sits in front of Buckeye Cabin in the La Sal Mountains, Utah. A sign reads, "Assay Office Buckeye Cabin." On a table are reagent bottles, a box of assay weights, a beaker, test tubes, glass-stoppered acid bottles, evaporating dishes, and a hot air sterilizer. Also shows a rifle, a shotgun, a gold washing pan, a pickaxe, a hand pick, and buckets.
View of an abandoned cabin located in a meadow in Alice (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The one story cabin has chinked, wood plank siding, a partly collapsed roof and large log beams. Mountains are in the distance.
Three men pose by a log cabin belonging to S. J. Roberts, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one man with pants tucked into knee-high boots stands near miner's pick, broom, and sledge hammer (possibly S. J. Roberts); men sit holding a flute or fife and a fiddle or violin; a rack of elk's antlers is over the door.
A man sits with his dog outside of a hewn log cabin near Rosita (Custer County), Colorado. The cabin has a single doorway, a rack of elk horns over the door, a chimney, and a sign reading: "Elkhorn Palace."
"Old Man Topping" with a miner's pick over his shoulder and his dog pose in front of first log cabin in Cripple Creek, Colorado; the cabin is small, flat-roof and rounded with a gold pan on exterior cabin wall and a shovel propped against cabin wall.