A new E. L. Moore cabin

All photos courtesy James L. Dixon

The date on the bottom of this cabin says 1978, which if it's to be believed, means ELM decided to pick up where he left off in the early 1960s and build another cabin. It looks like this particular one was unpublished, and is a new find.

We've seen some cabins before. There were these two, where the larger one appeared as a background building in the lead photo to the unpublished article, The little church on the hill, and the smaller one looks like it was based on a photo from the book, Cabins in the Laurel. There was also this cabin, whose construction was described in ELM's December 1963 Railroad Model Craftsman article, Easy To Build Cabin or Cottage. 

Love that bear skin. 

An aside. In the '60s my grandmother had a bear skin, much like that in ELM's model, hanging on an inside wall of her garage. My uncle had shot the bear during his time on the Pinetree Line. It was making frequent raids on their camp looking for food.

I think all the cabins ELM made relate back either to his time in the Great Smoky Mountains or to his childhood days in rural Michigan. I can't yet prove this conjecture, so it's so far just another of my speculations. 

As per his usual technique, ELM didn't build the walls from individual logs, but carved log shapes into sheets of balsa.

It looks like the fireplace's stonework is texture paper, and not cut in with a wood burning tool as per his usual method. But, it looks good.

Like many ELM projects, the roof comes off to show a detailed interior.

The living area almost looks like a reading room. This seems like a theme across a few ELM builds. That other large cabin includes a bookcase full of books, and then there's the Bookery.

As you can see, the attic level also lifts out. In his other large cabin, the attic level was the sleeping area.

Overall, this is a very nice project, and given that he returned to this theme later in life, it might have a personal significance for him that I haven't grasped.