page_title: Lower Swedish Cabin
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Lower Swedish Cabin / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Lower Swedish Cabin on NRHP
context_page_description: Lower Swedish Cabin is an historic Swedish-style log cabin on Creek Road in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania along Darby Creek. The cabin may be one of the oldest log cabins in the United States.
context_section_description: It was likely built sometime between 1640 and 1650 by Swedish immigrants who were part of the New Sweden colony. Although claims have been made that in the early 1900s, film pioneer Siegmund Lubin filmed several movies at the site, recent scholarship does not support this assertion. The house served as a private residence until 1937, when it was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Cabin became the property of the township of Upper Darby.  After neglect and vandalism throughout the mid-1900s the house was restored in 1987.
  The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
caption: In 1937
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