The cabin is looking for a new owner who will protect its history and is listed for sale for the seventh time since 2015 for $475,000.įast forward to frontier log forts, Daniel Boone, Lincoln’s log home to the “Great Camps” of the Gilded Age, and Gustaf Stickley’s Arts & Craft log buildings. ![]() One of the oldest homes in the United States is a rustic log cabin built by Forest Finns in 1638 located in Greenwich, NJ. ![]() In North America the earliest log buildings were built in New Sweden, a short-lived Swedish colony, in the Delaware and Brandy Wine River valleys. Historically logs were the preferred construction material in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe as early as the Bronze Age with log structures still standing that date before 1200 AD. They express the freedom and self-reliance of the frontier, and our beginnings as a nation. Log homes have always occupied a special place in the American psyche. For this holiday issue we researched the history of log homes, their presence in our region, and visit some that are available for purchase just in time for Christmas.Ī very brief history of log home building Log homes’ distinctive construction material can create a rustic Lincoln cabin or a grand Adirondack camp. December is a time of gatherings and celebrations and often conjures up visions of log cabins in the snow with roaring fires in a massive, stone fireplace, and flannel pajamas.
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