PS Later on, the houses were often reconstructed with wood planking on top of the logs to give a more finished appearance and for more insulation and in that way they could be modernized and painted. The multiple doors often stayed for, as you indicated, better circulation s the breezes could pass through the house in the hear of the summer. In later construction, when logs were not longer used, they kept this type of design for practical reasons. This did not come from European home design as they used the salt box type of construction that featured the two story colonial with one door the front to keep out the cold in those cold European and New England winters. They also used the one and a half story cape cod design that also only had one front door and one back door, again to keep out the cold. But, in the hear of the South, they needed to get circulation into the house for coolness in the summer so doors were an advantage when windows were so hard to build and to keep. The colonial houses had many windows, as you know, but the pioneers had very few. Another post script about the colonial cap cod type homes. They were meant to have those two windows that protruded out the front of the second floor that allowed seating in the upper story. But, the colonies began to tax n the number of floors that were finished on a house. So they took the front windows out to fool the tax assessors when they came and only had little holes on the side of the attic for circulation. When they stopped taxing in the way, the windows appeared in construction again. This type of architecture became a favorite across the country and is found not only in New England but all across Tennessee and is very popular today with the long front porch across the 1 1/2 story houses. Regina Markowicz Troy, Michigan