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Lower Swedish Cabin
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Lower Swedish Cabin, November 2009
Lower Swedish Cabin is located in Pennsylvania
Lower Swedish Cabin
Location in Pennsylvania
Lower Swedish Cabin is located in the United States
Lower Swedish Cabin
Location in the United States
Location Drexel Hill, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
Area 1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built 1640–1650
Architectural style Swedish Plan
NRHP reference No. 80003484
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Added to NRHP June 9, 1980

Lower Swedish Cabin is a historic Swedish-style log cabin on Creek Road in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, along Darby Creek. The cabin may be one of the oldest log cabins in the United States and is one of the last cabins built by the Swedish settlers that remains intact.

History

The house was likely built sometime between 1640 and 1650 by Swedish immigrants who were part of the New Sweden colony. Although claims have been made that in the early 1900s, film pioneer Siegmund Lubin filmed several movies at the site, recent scholarship does not support this assertion. The house served as a private residence until 1937, when it was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the cabin became the property of the township of Upper Darby. After neglect and vandalism throughout the mid-1900s the house was restored in 1987.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

View from northwest. February 5, 1937. Photo by Ian McLaughlin. - Lower Swedish Log Cabin, Darby Creek vicinity (Clifton Heights), Darby, Delaware County, PA HABS PA,23-DARB.V,2-1 cropped
In 1937
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