The Loghaven Community is a collection of historic log cabins located on a wooded ninety-acre ridge off Candora Road in South Knoxville, only two miles from downtown. In the 1930’s Martha “Missie” Thompson began developing the community, including four log cabins along Loghaven Drive and one on Cherokee Cove.  In 2008 the Aslan Foundation purchased Loghaven, a site slated for development as large-scale student housing.  The Foundation acquired several parcels with the goal of preserving and enhancing the cabins and surrounding land.  In 2015 the parcels were combined into a single lot, and rehabilitation work began.  The design team started with an initial evaluation of the condition of each of the cabins.  After documenting years of deferred maintenance and poorly constructed additions it became clear that the cabins were not originally built to last the 80 years they had lasted, much less another 80 years.  And while the history of the cabins did not include historical figures or events, the age and unique stories of the cabins needed to be preserved so the National Park Service Standards for Rehabilitation were referenced throughout the design process along with documentation of Civilian Conservation Corps cabins where were constructed around the same time.  With these goals established, the painstaking design and construction process was underway.  The 4-year construction project included the rehabilitation of 6 original cabins.  A 7th is scheduled for renovation as part of a later phase.  Rehabilitation work included numerous structural modifications designed to be invisible to future occupants.  Substandard additions were removed and replaced with materials more appropriate to the original.  Throughout the process the design team adopted the attitude that we were preserving and enhancing the cabins in ways that Missie Thompson herself would likely had done had she had the means when constructing the cabins in the mid-1930’s.  Now open, the Loghaven Artist Residency serves as the home for up to 9 visiting artists for terms ranging from two to eight weeks.