Cool post. It is interesting how old buildings can sometimes in plain site.
Where I grew up in South East Montana there are hidden old log cabin that are hidden within regular looking farmhouses. This is because the homesteaders incorporated the log walls of the cabin into the farmhouse as they expanded their log cabins out and up a story with cut lumber.
A buddy of mine went to put in a Woodstock in an old farm house he bought and found he had to cut through logs to do it
Would have never known looking at it
in 2007 we drove, sort of by accident, to Columbus, Kentucky.
Just east of town about 2 miles, almost completely hidden by trees and overgrowth was an old, small building with “Daboes” still barely readable on the front.
I asked some of the locals what is was and they responded that it was “where the coloreds used to gather and such”.
History is sometimes hidden in plain sight.
I live in a pre-1789 log house that was once home to the resident blacksmith on the trail west, in Maryland.
The logs were covered with clapboard siding at some point and a stick frame addition added an inside kitchen and two room upstairs.
From the outside, the only giveaway is the log smokehouse/summer kitchen.
There are quite a few log houses similarly disguised in my area.