When John Mott found two dilapidated cabins on a friend’s property in Cottonton, he decided to restore them, but not separately. Mott, with the help of many friends and neighbors, took the cabins ...

Puzzle boxes, not pastry, fill the antique pie safe in the corner. Pieces of the next-up puzzle cover the surface of a vintage farmhouse table. An even bigger puzzle surrounds all of this: an 1800s ...

Authentic hand-hewn log homes that date back to the 1800s are few and far between in northern Illinois. Those that might have been built in this area back then have long since been torn down and ...

Andy Mills got into the business of preserving hand-hewn log buildings when he lived in Texas, where he saw his first log cabin. “It was half burned and falling down,” he said. But the cabin captured ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE An aluminum-sided tract house isn't likely to inspire the kind of inner warmth many people feel when they see a log cabin. Perhaps it has to do with the simple beauty of the raw ...