Post by BuckSkin on Jul 8, 2023 8:44:48 GMT
While reading through THIS, I came up with my own personal experience theory about double-front-door so-called Cumberland houses.
We have discussed and made note of such dwellings in the past whenever a photo of such a dwelling was posted.
Reading through the Casey County Survey article and also from several other sources in the internet, I found all manner of ridiculous ideas about the reason behind two front doors.
Having lived some five or six years in such a house myself and having several relatives and acquaintances who have and still live in such houses, I offer the real reason for the two front doors.
Firstly, not saying they don't exist, but I have never seen a house with two front doors that did not have a roofed porch.
The front rooms of every double-door house I ever was in had a flue in the center of the house that allowed for a wood stove on both sides of the dividing wall.
Common poor people who live in such houses use common good sense and rick their winter's wood on the front porch --- and alongside the walls inside the rooms, several ricks deep; you don't want to be fanning the doors going after a stick of wood when it is ten-below outside.
If they only had a single front door, that would mean they would have to pack the wood for the second stove through the front room, then through the kitchen and around to the stove in the other front room.
Some intelligent individual decided this behavior was ignorant and cut hisself a door in that second room so he could simply open that second door and fetch in the wood for that second stove.
It wasn't long before other somewhat intelligent individuals saw what he had done and decided it was a pretty smart idea.
Also, there ain't a genuine wood-burning human alive who has not at least one time in his life had to pack a burning stove outside and leave it in the yard; having a door right there by the stove makes this trip a lot easier and less apt to burn the house down.
I find it amusing the theories people who have never burned a stick of wood in their life come up with to explain the reasons for the second door.
Something to think about = both front doors are dead in line with the stoves in the rooms; they are not offset to the sides; they are always in the center, separated only by the dividing wall.
I know you guys already had this figured out but I thought I would share it anyway while it was fresh in my mind.
We have discussed and made note of such dwellings in the past whenever a photo of such a dwelling was posted.
Reading through the Casey County Survey article and also from several other sources in the internet, I found all manner of ridiculous ideas about the reason behind two front doors.
Having lived some five or six years in such a house myself and having several relatives and acquaintances who have and still live in such houses, I offer the real reason for the two front doors.
Firstly, not saying they don't exist, but I have never seen a house with two front doors that did not have a roofed porch.
The front rooms of every double-door house I ever was in had a flue in the center of the house that allowed for a wood stove on both sides of the dividing wall.
Common poor people who live in such houses use common good sense and rick their winter's wood on the front porch --- and alongside the walls inside the rooms, several ricks deep; you don't want to be fanning the doors going after a stick of wood when it is ten-below outside.
If they only had a single front door, that would mean they would have to pack the wood for the second stove through the front room, then through the kitchen and around to the stove in the other front room.
Some intelligent individual decided this behavior was ignorant and cut hisself a door in that second room so he could simply open that second door and fetch in the wood for that second stove.
It wasn't long before other somewhat intelligent individuals saw what he had done and decided it was a pretty smart idea.
Also, there ain't a genuine wood-burning human alive who has not at least one time in his life had to pack a burning stove outside and leave it in the yard; having a door right there by the stove makes this trip a lot easier and less apt to burn the house down.
I find it amusing the theories people who have never burned a stick of wood in their life come up with to explain the reasons for the second door.
Something to think about = both front doors are dead in line with the stoves in the rooms; they are not offset to the sides; they are always in the center, separated only by the dividing wall.
I know you guys already had this figured out but I thought I would share it anyway while it was fresh in my mind.
