Morastugan

Morastugan is a parstuga (a traditional two-room cottage) from the early 19th century. It is a log-built house clad in red-painted vertical boarding with white corner trims, door, and window casings. The roof is of ridge-beam construction and covered with single-curved clay tiles.

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The building was erected around 1815–1817 by churchwarden Per Jansson and Kjerstin Jansdotter, following the land redistribution (storskiftet) in Mora village. In the anderstuga (the main room) there are dalmålningar—folk paintings—depicting, among others, Napoleon I and his Empress Joséphine. The artist is unknown, but it may have been one of the Dalarna painters Björn Anders Hansson or Daniel Andersson. These paintings are unique within Stockholm County.

In 1834, the farm was sold to Eric Ersson. In 1845, it was taken over by Jonas Henrik Gistren, to whom Ersson owed a large sum of money. Gistren leased the property to Jan Ersson and Eric Olsson; the latter purchased it in 1849. In 1860, Morastugan was bought by Anders Ersson, who installed the village’s first cast-iron stove in the cottage. The house was abandoned in 1920, when a new, larger dwelling was built on the farm. Morastugan then became a farmhand’s quarters and later a carpenter’s workshop.