So I’ve been working hard on this cabin. I started the project back in August 2007 and have slowly but surely been restoring it. This building was built all by hand with wood that came off the same property sometime before 1900 (They approximate the building to be about 150 years old, no one has found out for sure). It used to be an old school house (Tripp Lake School) and used to sit right next to the road. About the year 1905 it was picked up and moved to it’s current location and had an addition built onto it so it could be lived in and it became a one season summer cottage. Over the years several people had stayed in it but for the past 14 years no one had occupied it and it became neglected all together. When I started to work on it, there was a lot of water and insect damage. 
Enough damage to the point of where it was not livable. Trees had also grown up to close to the building which damaged parts of the foundation and roof. I made an arrangement with the owners to fix the place up to make it livable, not only for one season, but for all year-round. I plan to live in it when it is finished.
So far a lot of work has been done. We took out all the interior walls and floors, and fixed all the support underneath. The leaking roof had caused a lot of support to rot, and the damage from wood ants and wood bees was unbelievable. But it’s all fixed now. It has all new floors and walls and we fixed the parts of the ceiling where it had leaked. They had paid a contractor to put a whole new roof on it. On the inside we framed up all new walls and put up all new dry wall, and we just finished the tape & spackle. By next week I should have the whole places primed ready to paint. On the outside we took off the front porch because it had already fallen down, the new one should be built soon. We are also building an addition off the back side for a bathroom since there currently isn’t one. I don’t want to have to use the outhouse in the middle of winter. I’ll keep you posted on what else goes on.
