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Historic Harrington Homestead Cabin Exhibit
The Harrington Cabin is furnished with a homestead collection of over 1,200 artifacts, including hand-tooled equipment, catalog-ordered household goods, and handmade personal items, encompassing the most complete time capsule of self-reliant homestead life in Homer from 1920-1960. The cabin can be seen outdoors along with the 1929 Nordby outhouse, the oldest two-seater in town.
Construction on this log cabin began in 1935 and was completed in 1936. Charlie Erickson built the cabin for Stanton Shafer on the Mae Crittenden Harrington homestead. Unfortunately, Mr. Shafer died in late 1936, and was thus willed to Jane Harrington, Mae’s daughter. It is 14’x16’ and built of spruce logs, beveled and square notched at the corners.
Mrs. Harrington was active in the Homer schools and her homestead is now part of the Homer Middle School campus. She was also postmaster from 1928-1934. Several families rented the cabin for short periods, before it was ultimately sold and moved from the homestead.
It was a tire repair shop for a brief period, located on the Bypass west of Olson Lane. In 1975, artist Toby Tyler purchased the cabin and moved it to Pioneer Avenue, where he used it as an art studio and retail shop, before donating it to the Kachemak Land Trust. In 1993, the cabin was donated and moved to its current location at the Pratt Museum, where it became and exhibit in 1995.
(Klein, Janet R. and Lane, Donna L. Historic Homer: A Building Survey and Inventory. Published by the Authors. Homer, Alaska. 1986.)
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