On March 19 I wrote a blog about an eighteenth century log cabin in Lancaster, PA that had been slated for demolition, but was now to be dismantled and preserved on another site.
If there is any doubt about the exposure that Active Rain blogs get, this should put it to rest. I was contacted by a man over a thousand miles away in Minnesota, who had spent the first fifteen years of his life in that very house!
Not only was Steve Landis kind enough to fill in some of the details of when he and his family lived there, he also found some black and white photos from 1961 which show the later appearance of the house. They also solve a mystery that was in my mind; namely, what kind of structure had been torn down earlier? The outline of the structure is apparent in the photo I took. Look at the earlier photo to see the summer kitchen, which may have been as old or even older than the original log cabin.
The photo on the left shows what the home looked like in 1961. The center photo is mine, showing something clearly missing in the rear of the house. The right hand photo shows the old summer kitchen, separated from the main house so that the cooking fires would not overheat the house in the summer - precisely fitting the missing shape in my own photo!
Here is a link to Steve's Flickr site, where he has uploaded many photos and descriptions of the homestead as it appeared over forty years ago.
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