Gene Stratton Porter Cabin (Geneva, Indiana)
Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin, (Geneva, Indiana), known as the Limberlost Cabin and the Limberlost State Historic Site, was the former home of Gene Stratton Porter, a noted Indiana author who lived in the home from 1895 to 1913. The two-story, fourteen-room log cabin is located near the Limberlost Swamp on the outskirts of Geneva in Adams County, Indiana. Stratton-Porter designed the Queen Anne-style rustic home with the help of an architect. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Gene Stratton Porter Cabin | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Limberlost State Historic Site, November 2011 | |
| Location | 200 E. 6th St., Geneva, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 40°35′13″N 84°57′36″W |
| Area | 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) |
| Built | 1895 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000027 |
| Added to NRHP | June 27, 1974 |
Stratton-Porter, who began her literary career in 1900, used the cabin as the base for her field research, natural history collecting, writing projects, and photographic work. She wrote The Song of the Cardinal (1903) and researched Moths of the Limberlost (1912) while living at the cabin. Stratton-Porter also used the Limberlost area as the setting for three novels: Freckles (1904) and A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) and Laddie (1913).