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Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin, (Geneva, Indiana), known as the Limberlost Cabin was designed and built by noted Indiana author Gene Stratton Porter in the Limberlost Swamp outside Geneva in Adams County, Indiana in 1895. It is a two-story Queen Anne-style rustic home built in Wisconsin white cedar, and featuring redwood shingles on the second story. The home contains 14 rooms, including a library and music room, with the front façade featuring a single-story wraparound porch featuring log pillars.

Stratton-Porter, her husband Charles Dorwin Porter, and daughter Jeannette named their new home Limberlost Cabin in acknowledgment of its location near the Limberlost Swamp, although Stratton-Porter referred to their home as "the cabin." The home was designed to be very elegant, but blending in with the natural setting.

In 1912 work was begun to drain Limberlost Swamp, and that land was cultivated after drainage was complete. Stratton-Porter and her family moved from the Limberlost Cabin to the Gene Stratton Porter Cabin at Wildflower Woods in Rome City, Indiana in 1914. Limberlost Cabin is now operated as a historic house museum and known as Limberlost State Historic Site.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Stratton-Porter's Writings

Stratton-Porter spent much time exploring, observing nature, sketching, and making photographs at the Limberlost Swamp. She alsThe as the setting for her most popular novels, Freckles (1904), A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) and Laddie (1913). She used swamp for research for her natural history "Moths of the Limberlost," (1912) as well. Stratton-Porter became known as "The Bird Lady" and "The Lady of the Limberlost" to friends and readers.

Stratton-Porter used her fictional writings to educate readers about birding and nature while interlacing her stories with romance and moral lessons. Her popularity was so high during World War I that "reprints of the novel were said to have littered the trenches."