“You’re not just building a subdivision home, you’re building something that people dream of since they were kids or their grandparents had a log cabin,” says Jamie Gervais ...

In the foyer of the present-day church hangs a sketch of the original log cabin. One Sunday after services, Fisette said he was catching up on Barnwood Builders when he recalled the illustration.

Finally, his broker took him to a 1952 log cabin in Stone Ridge that had been languishing on the market. “She tells me there is this gorgeous pond in front,” he says. “And I go ...