I do, lets see yours. no kits please. this one was originally built (1803ish) in New Geneva Pa., a town laid out by Albert Gallatin. with lots of help I took it down, moved it 65 miles to Deep Valley, Greene Co Pa.
That's pretty neat but it ain't got a basement to stuff full of old car parts like you do in your shop in town!
I sent Dave (car doctor) a conversation informing him of this thread,he has a beautiful log home. HRP
I have one that was built around 1790. It had been sitting empty since about 1910 when I bought it. I took it down and moved it to property I had bought and reassembled it, this was a 5 year project. I also added a 20-30 addition for a country kitchen and covered it with Belgium stone.I also put a wrap around porch on it. Everybody thought I was nuts at first but after it was done they all love it.
built in 1918 . moved by me and a hydraulic jack in 2010 . on my 40 acres of mountain in the interior of b.c. she still needs more love but with a new roof I have the next 100 years to finish it.
That's pretty cool. I don't have one but there plenty in Michigan...especially Northern MI. Always a treat to see one that has stood the test of time.
I have to bump this up, since it brings back a ton of memories. Back in 1980-81, I lived in a two story log house, that was built in 1810. It was pretty cool, but nothing compared to the log house my grandparents lived in. Their house was a 2 story, 3 bedroom home, built around 1860. It was constructed from sawn poplar logs, that were sawn by a portable sawmill, that hired out to landowners, who wanted to build from timber that stood on their property. It was a fairly common way for people to build, in the mid-19th century, in S.E. Ohio. There were at least half a dozen of them within a 5 mile radius of theirs. These homes were also completely sided with poplar, at the time of construction. One of them was purchased by a local college prof, and he immediately set to "restoring" it, by removing all the trim and siding. A descendant of the original owner (said owner was a Civil War vet, who had lost a leg) showed him pictures of the house when new, and convinced him to re-side the house. Grandma's house was sold, torn down, and moved to a new location about 15 years ago, leaving nothing but the chimney, and a few cut and dressed foundation stones, that were crumbling too badly to use again. As youngsters, that farm was the center of the universe, like Tara, or Twelve Oaks, to us. It was quite a shock to drive past it last year, and find nothing left, but that forlorn chimney, alone, but still standing, after 150 years.
This was my last house, not nearly as old but hand built in the 1970’s, beautiful house. Can’t take credit for building it, would have loved to be able to move it to my new property! Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
Beautiful homes. One of my life dreams is to spend the Christmas holidays with my entire family: in a log cabin ,in the mountains, with lots of snow on the ground.
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