Theresa Locke looks up at an American flag hung outside the Walker-Ewing Log House in Collier Township. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the average size of a land grant in Southwestern Pennsylvania ...

When we think of early houses in the region, the images that usually come to mind are the large, stone farm houses and the associated bank barns. But these were almost all built in the 19th Century, ...

Cozy, square and traditional -- that's the log home we've come to know from syrup bottles and Abe Lincoln's backwoods boyhood. But an Olympic Peninsula couple has found it pays to think outside that ...

When the concept of log homes was introduced in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe over 200 years ago, it was initially viewed as a stale idea of building dwellings with rustic back woods. Over the years, ...

More people are embracing homes made of timber or other wood products, and not only are they 'permanent', they are also stylish. Many, especially, in rural areas have been building timber houses for a ...

Joey Bogumit works Friday to dismantle a log house in Deemston before it will be reassembled near Carmichaels. BROWNSVILLE – An old log house on a hill in Brownsville is looking for a new owner who’s ...

Robert Reintgen of Derry Township was doing what he loves to do Monday, bringing a 200-year-old, two-story log house back to life. It’s one of several similar rehabilitation projects he is juggling ...

Log by giant log, painstakingly lifted by a crane and laid in place, the ends notched with a chainsaw to make them fit snugly, about a dozen craftsmen and volunteers are rebuilding a roughly ...

This week’s selection is actually two log homes, both on a 45-acre lot carved out of the northeast Rensselaer County forest. The first house at 19361-3 NY 22 in Petersburgh was built in 1987. It has ...

When Pete Holmberg set out to build on an empty lot on the corner of Cajed Lane and Smithtown Road in Shorewood in the mid-1980s, he knew he wanted a log house. Holmberg's search led him to a company ...