Plans have been submitted to build a temporary log cabin home on a farm to accommodate an agricultural worker.

The two properties represent very different price points. The modest log cabin is listed for $239,500; the four-bedroom house for $539,000. And both will appeal to that buyer looking for something ...

A few months earlier, a campus-wide e-mail titled build a cabin this summer had pulled in more than 100 responses, and Sokol had chosen five canoe-club diehards for the privilege of doing hard labor.

Adoption attorney Michele Jackson and husband Wayne DeVeydt, the chief financial officer at WellPoint, purchased their seven-bedroom home to accommodate the needs of their growing family. But they ...