This House is Old

I love it when other people do all the work and all I have to do is upload the pictures.

Here’s a shot of the kitchen window at The Farm. Look carefully and you’ll see the pioneer-era hand drawn logs (8×12 black walnut) that frame the window. Yes, that’s the original log cabin beneath that Western red cedar siding. Older siding on the house is white oak.

When I was a kid and my dad fixed the siding on the external kitchen wall. The insulation? Old newspapers that dated pre-World War I. This house is full of hidden treasures like that.

No one knows exactly how old this place is, though we are learning more and more, like that the house sits a top a hill that overlooks an old riverside wagon trail.

When the fields are tilled, arrowheads are easy picking.

Thanks to Hoosier Outsider for sending the pic, chronicling the upgrades and helping me with structural details.