Door and boarded up window on an abandoned summer kitchen. Photograph by Christopher Crawford

weathered wood door and boarded up window on an abandoned summer kitchen in the winter. Allen county, indiana on winters road

This is a summer kitchen, a small building built behind a farmhouse to allow cooking in the summer without heating up the main house. It is a tiny building with two rooms and three doors, one on each end and one on the side. It sits on stone blocks like an old hillbilly shack and has a tin roof. The old man who owns the land says it was moved there in 1924 from a place down the street where it was built in the 19th century. The house it stood behind is long gone and the summer kitchen likely will be too before long as it's in bad condition and has been attacked by vandals several times recently.

I have photographed this building in southwest Allen County many times over the years. Check out the next photograph of the summer kitchen on Winters Road.

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Christopher Crawford
Fort Wayne, IN

chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com