Pendleton Cabin & School House

The Pendleton cabin is a replica of the home built by Dr. Calvin Pendleton in Nauvoo, Illinois circa 1839. At his wife's behest, Dr. Pendleton treated his patients for free in his own home and added a school room to the back of the cabin where he earned a living as a teacher.

While not a perfect copy, great take care has been made to keep the proportions, design, and colors authentic. Like the real Pendleton home, this cabin features a large central room with a fireplace made from red clay. The logs and the ceiling of the room were white washed as was common for cabins from that area and time period. Above the central room is a loft where the Pendleton family slept. And at the back of the cabin is a replica of the old school room.

The cabin's base is approximately 13 meters by 12 meters and has a land impact of 213 prims due to the careful attention to detail that has been put into this build. Permissions are copy, modify, no transfer.

While the original Pendleton cabin no longer stands, a replica has been constructed by his descendants and is now part of a large living history museum located in Nauvoo, Illinois. At the time of Dr. Pendleton's arrival in Nauvoo in 1839, Nauvoo was known as Commerce, Illinois and was more or less a large swamp with a sprinkling of a few pioneer families. At the time of his family's departure in 1846, Commerce had been renamed Nauvoo and had grown so large that it rivaled Chicago as the largest city on the western frontier.