jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Somewhere along the Utah/Colorado border.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Very nice. At least it is biodegradable.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Some care over the years and someone could still live in it. There was a log house about that size in my hometown (Kentucky) that had been kept up and even modernized with concrete chinking, paint, electricity, an oil cooking stove that also heated the place and glass windows back in the 20s. In the 50s when I was a little kid it was lived in by a guy who to me looked old enough to have known Moses. He had outlived all of his family who were still in Kentucky, so when he got too old to work his farm he leased it to someone and lived in the cabin his Great-Great-Great something-or-other had built around 1800. The last time I was home about 20 years ago it was still there and the family in the house next door had bought it when he died and used it for a guest house.

For you "City Slickers" who don't know, in small towns like my hometown, well-built, well maintained houses pass from generation to generation. Just with remodels and upgrades. The Grand Kids or Great Grand Kids of my buddy I went to school with probably live in that house now.

My Grandparent's farmhouse was built at the end of the Civil War on the foundation and using a lot of the heavy framing beams and planks of the previous house after a fire damaged the house that had been built in the early 1800s. The farm house had been redone from two stories to one story with a big attic (windows, floor etc.-sometimes used for guests and then electricity in the 30s, indoor bathroom and shower plus a gas floor furnace in the 50s. The first large log house was built in 1791.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

And apparently biodegrading......

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Good eye for catching neat "stuff!"

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

Very nicely done, Jim.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Nicely captured Jim - well done!

oldpsych Loc: Indianapolis

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jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Thanks Bill...appreciate!!

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Thank you, Barbara...given enough time!!

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Thanks for all the background info, Robert. It is unusual to see a log cabin in use around these parts. Some have stayed in good condition but are mostly used for storage or shuttered.

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

What a way to live, even when that was in good condition.

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Many thanks, Dave...I've always been drawn to these subjects. Mostly intrigued by the hardships that both the inhabitants and structure endured!!