nuts & bolts Homes: Each Amish Made Cabins home will be 16 feet by 70 feet. Distinctive elements: Fully furnished with appliances and carpet.

The Amish Built Homes team has even created hidden pantries, wraparound front porches, and other one-of-a-kind cabin requests. Jenny White, cabin consultant with Amish Made Cabins in Shepherdsville.

This Amish-built log cabin has zero modern amenities, and that’s a good thing. Completed in 2011, it serves as an off-the-grid retreat for the extended Wolfe family. (The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Franklin Pierce based his 1852 campaign biography around a “log cabin childhood” that was actually a brief, unmemorable stay while a larger home was being built; James Buchanan did something ...

The Rorers' log home includes 907 square feet, with a kitchen and living/dining room on the first floor, along with a rear sun room. Two bedrooms and a pink-tiled bathroom can be found upstairs.

He’s talking about Henry Steiner, a self-taught carpenter who, along with his family, hand built dozens of log cabins along the western slope of Mount Hood from the late 1920s to early 1950s.

In 1912, on the occasion of the Columbus centennial, local historian H. Warren Phelps wrote a brief description of how one of these log homes was built. It is a description worth repeating.

Doug Wallace was a teenager when he first dreamed of building a log cabin the old-fashioned way.He was captivated by the accounts of pioneers moving across the prairie in covered wagons in the ...