I don’t think that the old log house rotted away. I saw it in 1952 and it was built in around 1830 out of whole logs. My uncle owned it and he had replaced the roof. My hope is that whoever he sold it to, kept it up and continued to preserve it.
Those cabins can last hundreds if years—unless the roof lets in water. When you see the sag in the ridgepole, that’s all she wrote.