Cook House
A cook house is a small building where cooking was done for field hands. It is different from a summer kitchen because of its location, its occasional portability, and its association with farmhands or migrant workers. Cook houses were documented in only one place, the Potter County Potatoes region. The documented examples are small gable-entry structures designed to be easily moved. A stovepipe opening at the gable end opposite the entrance indicates the location of the stove. They were located near migrant workers' quarters in one case, and right in the field in another. The examples documented date to about 1945-60.
Cook house, Snowman Road, Potter County, c. 1960.
Note
This is a static, archived version of the PHMC Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project website which will not be updated. It is a snapshot of the website with minor modifications as it appeared on August 26, 2015.
Pages in this Section
- Overview
- House Types
- Barn Types
- Barn Features
- Outbuilding Types
- Overview
- Bake Oven
- Butcher House
- Carriage House
- Cider House
- Combination Structure
- Cook House
- Corn Crib
- Dryhouse
- Fruit Cold Storage
- Garage
- Grain Bin
- Granary
- Greenhouse
- Hay Drying Shed
- Hog House
- Horse Barn
- Ice House
- Machine Shed
- Maple Sugar House
- Milk House
- Packing House
- Potato Storage Cellar
- Poultry Housing
- Privy
- Roadside Stand
- Root Cellar
- Scale House
- Shed
- Silo
- Smokehouse
- Spray Shed
- Springhouse
- Summer Kitchen
- Wagon Shed
- Wash House
- Wood Shed
- Worker Housing
- Workshop
- Landscape Elements
- Archaeological Features