Located in Lincoln Parish on Highway 152 between Dubach and Hico. The Absalom Autrey house is an example of the log dogtrot, the most common traditional house type of the early north Louisiana hill country. Built in 1849 and believed to be the oldest surviving structure in Lincoln Parish, the hand-hewn log house with square notches has an open central hall. It has two rooms on each side and a sleeping loft above. The original ironstone chimney on the east still stands, but the stairs to the loft has been replaced.

Behind the house is the family cemetery, where Absalom Autrey and his first wife Elisabeth Norris and second wife Kezia McCalla, along with other family members and slaves are buried. Absalom Autrey, the builder of the house, was a typical pioneer of the area. Drawn by the abundance of cheap land fro growing cotton, ne moved by wagon to present day Lincoln Parish from Selma, Alabama, in 1848 with his wife Elizabeth Norris and their fourteen children. On the two hundred acre plot of land he purchased on Bird Creek, they grew cotton, and corn for cash and raised vegetables and livestock and hunted game for food.

Autrey was quite successful for his day. While in some regions of the south the two-storied columned mansion is the stereotype of the southern plantation, in north central Louisiana, the log dogtrot was the norm for planters. The Autrey house in its day was considered one of the finest in the region. Sturdily built to last generations, the house was occupied by his descendants through the first quarter of this century and later rented until the early 1970's.