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Aka Withers Log Cabin
Washoe County, NV
Listed: 04/06/2000
The Withers Log Home, built c. 1931, was originally a rustic vacation home that now serves as a year-round residence in the North Lake Tahoe community of Crystal Bay, Nevada. It is situated on a steep hillside overlooking Lake Tahoe. The house is constructed of logs, with wood shingles cladding the framed gable ends, and unpeeled (bark-covered) half logs shirting covering the post and beam footing. The logs are slightly squared and do not cross in a conventional manner; instead, where alternate layers cross the space is filled with a log that butts up to the crossing log. The roof is clad in composition shingles, cut to a semi-octagonal decorative pattern. The window fenestration is typically grouped six-light wood casement. The original windows have been replaced with new windows that are accurate reproductions of the originals.
The house is set in a highly natural setting, surrounded by mature first- and second-growth pine and fir trees, and large granite boulders. Landscaping is minimal, comprised mainly of small landscaped terraces above the house; a small watercourse splashes diminutive waterfalls down the slope above the house in summer months.
The Withers home is both architecturally and historically significant. It is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under criterion C as an excellent example of the rustic tradition at Lake Tahoe. The house is a modest, but well-designed and beautifully detailed log vacation home. It is also eligible under criterion A, as one of the first such homes in the Crystal Bay Corporation's subdivision, a key factor in the growth of tourism on Lake Tahoe's north shore.
The Withers Home retains its integrity of location, setting, design, workmanship, materials, feeling, and association. Sited in one of the few areas in the Crystal Bay/Incline areas of North Lake Tahoe that was not clear-cut to feed the mining and building needs of the Comstock, the house is still surrounded by first and second-growth native timber and granite rocks. Both the exterior and the interior retain the original design details mat make the home architecturally unique and significant. Neither an estate home nor a cabin of humble proportions, the house is a modest but well-designed and beautifully detailed log vacation home, and reflects the growing practice of the period that saw wealthy urbanites seek refuge in scenic recreational areas in their own homes rather than resort hotels. The Withers Home also appears eligible under criterion A as one of the first such homes in the Crystal Bay Corporation's subdivision, a key factor-together with its developer, Norman Biltz in the growth of tourism in Nevada on Lake Tahoe's north shore.
Stocking up for winter / Zapasy na zimÄ™...
Neighbours are going nuts thinking the balcony's going to collapse. After all, the building is over 100 years old. We'll see.
Sąsiedzi wariują, mówiąc, że balkon zaraz się zawali. Z resztą kamienica ma ponad 100 lat. Zobaczymy.
Juliet's Log -
Tuesday 29th Roger had another quiet morning reading C S Forester. I got my bike down and went for an hour’s ride to Montfort and back x 2 because I lost the map on the way (probably for the better – editor); never found it. Beautiful climate for riding and I really enjoyed it. PM we drove to Chateau Fenelon as we arrived we recognised that we had been there before and found it closed. It must have been a Tuesday as it was shut again!! We followed signs to Les Jardins du Manoir d’Eyrignac and visited them instead. They were very formal gardens which had been in the same family for 500years. Almost totally made up of topiary and lawns with a lot of use of perspective and manicured to the ultimate degree; very little colour. Entry was expensive at €24 for two, Roger begged a discount (- showed them my English Heritage membership card- ) and we were allowed in for €19!! Well done Roger (- praise!!!!).
See more at www.logcabindahlias.com Dahlias on the Log Cabin Dahlia farm outside of Portland, Oregon
An old log cabin off the Old Flowers road in Colorado. This one had good structure, window cut-out, and a bit of log-foundation as well. Just no roof.
I posted a while back looking for advice on sanding picture frame floors, & removing very hard old carpet pad. With the help of those who responded, & some Yankee ingenuity I'm very happy with how things turned out. The owner is thrilled.
Thanks to all.
Pete Lukawicz
Caption on image: Lake Tahoe, 1898. Photograph of a train loaded with logs crossing a trestle in the forest; photographic print, 8 x 10 inches
UNRS-P1992-01-3273
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A print (1835).
Frontspiece to Two years' residence in the new settlements of Ohio, North America : with directions to emigrants (1835) by D. Griffiths.
Used courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh Libraries and the Internet Archive.
10° Festival internazionale di canto corale Seghizzinregione, Friuli Venezia Giulia, 12, 15, 16 luglio 2012
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This image was processed in Photomatix and then manipulated in Photoshop CS4 (mostly in Camera Raw). Three exposures at two stops separation.
Log Cabin at McPherson County Old Mill Museum in Lindsborg Kansas. Built in 1870 and was located southwest of town.
In via Mura di porta Galliera 11. Social Log: "Il nostro piano casa è il sorriso di 29 bambini che da oggi si sono ripresi il diritto di avere una casa".
Bologna, 18 giugno 2014
If you look at this in large you will be able to see better the logs and mortar from the log cabin hiding under the interior walls.
I could not make out what the whole 'sign' said, painted on these logs. I think it says "Christmas"-- this was in rear Christmas Island, Cape Breton.
This was my first quilt using a backing fabric. I loved the process of piecing. The initial plan was to use up scraps: CJW's old shirts; a Laura Ashley skir of my mother's; half-used fat quarters. But some additional fat quarters had to be purchased. Backed with sheeting fabric from John Lewis which after years of almost daily use (curled up on the sofa) is now brushed buttery soft. Used Heirloom cotton (from Strawberry Fayre) so it is light and warm.
Several mistakes/learning points with this one too: need to monitor and check colour values carefully; be careful of mixing prints and plains; needed a better centre square - it didn't pop or blend; cotton wadding is easier to machine than the synthetic stuff I'd been buying locally. I used a spare photo mount and some clear green acetate (from our local art supplies shop) to help me check colour values in the future.