Old Log Cabins & Pioneer Barns - Pictures.

[Jack Ryan]

Friendship Indiana
Rendezvous cabin.

 

[INMT]

Friendship Indiana
Rendezvous cabin.

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Very cool. What’s the story? I see it’s near Big Oaks, hopefully that doesn’t get shut down. I grew up in NC IN.

 

[Jack Ryan]

In the early years of the NMLRA rendezvous meets in Friendship, they allowed members to have long term camp sites so they could use the same spot year after year. Quite a few of them built these type cabins on their camp sites.

I came along many years after they built them and got in to the whole go to rendezvous, flee market, historic, whole thing of the events and noticed these cabin. I noticed they seem to fit in with an idea I'd had to make something from the discarded slabs from sawmills.

So I took pictures to remember how they were built and put together.

They are just cool and a construction technique I'd not seen any where else. They are actually double wall, with the slabs alternating the opposite to fill the gap on the other side.

You can see here they are just one inch boards rough cut and beveled to make rain run off. The inside wall is just mirror image. There is no corner post or anything.

 

[merbes]

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looks beautiful!