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Smokehouse Designs
from the Historic American Building Survey
View photos of a variety
of different smoke houses from the early 1700s on. Then, print
free plans, exterior elevations, building sections and
construction details. You'll find meat smoking and salting
houses built from wood, stone, brick and logs.
These eighteenth and
nineteenth century buildings are samples of the hundreds of
practical outbuilding designs that have been preserved through the HABS.
1825 Tomas Black Smokehouse, Monmouth Road, Jobstown vicinity,
Burlington, NJ
Card #NJ0341
This finely crafted
little building has an adjacent fire chamber and pipe vents. The
smoke and heat of the fire could be maintained and adjusted
without opening the door to the meat hanging area.
CARD #NC0085
Simple log-frame
Meat Houses like this one were used both to salt and to
smoke meat.
CARD #NJ0350
This two-story stone outbuilding has fire
area on the lower level and meat storage above.
Smoke can move up through open slots between the upper level
floor boards. The Tallmans could maintain and adjust the smoke and heat of the fire
without opening the door to the meat hanging area.
CARD #NJ0257
This attractive
sandstone and wood outbuilding was the smokehouse for the
historic Zabriskie farm. It has a big stone fire hearth and
brick chimney and plenty of room for hanging meat.
CARD #NJ0333
This combination
smokehouse and outhouse was carefully crafted of brick on a
stone foundation. It was built sometime between 1789 and 1830
for the Eayres family farm. Before indoor plumbing and health
codes, the combination must have seemed like a good idea.
The Historic
American Building Survey is a joint effort of the Library of
Congress and the National Park Service. Read more about their
efforts to preserve America's heritage by visiting their
website:
Built in America To learn more
about any of the designs listed here, search for it by its card
number. Then, explore the vast and ever-growing HABS collection
to view related building designs.
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