With little money and no electricity, self-taught craftsman Henry Steiner, his wife and their 11 kids foraged for timber and river rock, and used hand tools and pulley systems to build log cabins in ...

Put away your levels. The logs forming these old cabins in Mount Hood are straight and sturdy. The decorative wood pieces are not. Crooked, bowed and bent, they prove that Henry Steiner was an artist ...

WHITE CLOUD -- Even as a child, Laura K. Hall dreamed of having a bit of land under her feet and a patch of sky overhead. She loved being outdoors, exploring the ponds and woods near her childhood ...

MIDDLEBROOK - A log cabin sits atop a hill through the rolling roads of Middlebrook. When you sit on the back porch, you can hear the babble of a small creek and look out into the fields. It's quaint.

CROSSLAKE - A Scandinavian half-log style home on Rush Lake on the Whitefish Chain, built in 1931, was on the first Log Home and Log Cabin Tour sponsored by the Crosslake Area Historical Society 17 ...

The Winter Living Room: So called because the woodstove heats the entire home. The blue sofa is an auction find, and the silk-damask mushroom pouf is from Maison Gerard. The iron fungi chandelier is ...

SCHROEDER -- As a cabin enthusiast, Jim Schwebel was aware of the storybook cabins architect Edwin Lundie had designed on the North Shore. So when the chance to buy a Lundie cabin came up in the 1990s ...

Scrawled in the corner of his concrete driveway: "Adventurer Phil Frederick." When he came back to Manito after spending most of his life traveling the world, Phil Frederick planned on building a ...