Joel Eddins House, Log cabin in Burritt on the Mountain, Alabama.

The Joel Eddins House is a 1+1⁄2-story hall-and-parlor log house, a style rarely found in Alabama. Its gable roof has brick chimneys at each end, and each room has two small four-pane windows flanking the chimney. The main entry opens into the larger hall, which has a fireplace on the west wall and a quarter-turn staircase in the northeast corner; the eastern door leads to the parlor with its own fireplace and staircase.

Joel Eddins, a settler from Abbeville County, South Carolina, built the house in 1810 near present-day Ardmore in Limestone County. It is the oldest documented building in Alabama. In 2007 it was moved from its original site to Burritt on the Mountain in Huntsville, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Joel Eddins came from Abbeville County, South Carolina, and gave the house its name; the hall-and-parlor plan it follows is uncommon in Alabama. Visitors can compare the two ground-floor rooms, each with its own fireplace, and note that the upstairs rooms are reached separately from the hall and the parlor below.

The house sits on the grounds of Burritt on the Mountain, where it was moved in 2007. Visitors enter through the main door into the larger hall room, which has a fireplace on the west wall and doors on the other two walls. The eastern door leads into the parlor, which has its own fireplace and staircase.

The building preserves its original design with one and a half stories, where the upper rooms were intentionally built without doors connecting them to each other. This unusual layout meant residents had to pass through the hall below to reach each upstairs room.