Summer Kitchen

 A summer kitchen was common in the 1850s. It provided a place to prepare meals, bake, and heat water for bathing and laundry.  More important, it kept the heat of a wood-burning stove out of the house during summer months and reduced the possibility of a farmhouse fire. The old farmhouse that was here is gone. Two  barns and this summer kitchen remain. The owner is building a new log home here and is going to restore this kitchen.