It's pretty amazing how well these old log structures hold up with no
maintenance. I saw one in the Fontana Village area of NC that was
constructed of American Chestnut in the 1840's IMSMC. I'm sure it was being
looked after but no preservatives were needed for the log walls. What a
tragedy to lose that species of tree.
Charlie
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Chris Crawford <
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Indiana once had a lot of log cabins, since the state was heavily forested
> in the 19th century. I have seen some of them covered up in modern siding,
> with newer additions built in more modern frame construction, like you
> described. I suspect that you're right that there are a lot of log cabin
> 'in hiding' that way! Here's an example I found a decade ago outside Fort
> Wayne.
>
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?prodId=338&category=4
>
> You can't see it in the photo, but the white part of the house is the
> hidden log cabin. There is no siding over the right side of the house,
> under the porch, and it is a 19th century log home! The addition on the
> left side of the house is late 19th or early 20th century woodframe
> construction. There is another addition like it on the back of the house,
> too. The woodframe parts have not held up nearly as well as the log cabin
> part, as you can see from the sagging roof and crooked door on the
> addition!
>
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?prodId=339&category=4
>
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> On 6/15/12 2:44 PM, "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> There are very few like this left in Indiana, but there were probably
> >> many of them 160 years ago.
> >
> >I learned that there are actually quite a few still remaining. The
> >bulk of them, however, have siding covering up the log construction.
> >When additions were built to the houses, they got resided at that
> >time.
> >
> >The house I grew up in was built around 1880, give or take a few
> >years. The house was sided with big planks of wood with chinking. I
> >believe it got sided with that asphalt-paper fake brick siding around
> >the turn of the century, about the time the first addition was put on.
> >Evidence shows that it was re-sided with wood siding a couple decades
> >after that when another addition was put on and a basement put
> >underneath. We figure it had a total of seven additions.
> >
> >My grandparents' houses never did get resided. They had the fake brick
> >material all the way up to the point were they were torn down in the
> >'80s.
> >
> >Here in Iowa--especially western Iowa, almost all old farmhouses are
> >the original houses. The bulk of these were constructed with planks
> >and originally covered with shake siding. Very very few log cabins
> >because there wasn't that much of a native population of trees to use
> >for house construction. Although, there is one log house about four
> >blocks away from me that had been covered with siding until a few
> >years ago when somebody bought it and fixing it up for a rental
> >property discovered the log construction underneath. He has since
> >restored it.
> >
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