Announcements
The cabin is up! The roof was finished October 14th. Boy Scout Martin Keefe is working on a kiosk that will display a sign made from the cabin timeline on our home page, donated by the Lansing Star. Phase 2 of fundraising has begun. Another $10,000 is being raised to pay for the roof, period-style doors and windows, and the chinking, which will be completed in the Spring.
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Contribute!
The North Log Cabin is being reassembled entirely with contributions. Donations are still needed! Click here to learn how you can contribute to restoring Lansing's 1791 log cabin. Click here to contact us.
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The Cabin Is Here!
The North Log Cabin was reassembled in Myers Park in September and October of 2009. Come see it in the park! Phase one was to reassemble the cabin on a concrete slab with a new roof. That is complete. Phase 2 will pay off the roof, and pay for the chinking and period-style doors and windows.The Lansing Community Council is raising $10,000 to complete Phase 2. Because the original roof was long gone, a new shake shingle roof had to be built. The Phase 2 money will pay for the roof, period-style doors and windows made of the left over original hemlock logs, plus the chinking (a kind of cement filling that is applied between the logs to insulate the cabin.
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Cabin Timeline
Click to see larger view Lansing's 1791 Log Cabin RessurectedFriday, 22 May 2009  All of a sudden the North Log Cabin has gone from a pile of logs with an uncertain future to a whirlwind of activity. Lansing Community Council President Ed LaVigne met with Town Councilman Bud Shattuck and McCarthy Building Companies' Pete Peters to talk about progress on getting the 1791 cabin restored. The North cabin is the oldest log cabin in Tompkins and Cayuga Counties."We have money, we have material, we're focussed," LaVigne said. "We've got June to raise the money, July to put it together, and August to celebrate."
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Letters: North Cabin a Piece of U.S. HistoryBy Frank North, Reprinted from The Lansing Star Online April 24, 2009 The North Cabin, now disassembled and awaiting a new chapter in its life, has significance even beyond its important relationship to Lansing’s own history. It represents several periods of American history that can be told well by the wooden structure and through the lives of those who pioneered Lansing and surrounding communities. The fact that it was built there when it was is a story worth preserving, protecting and retelling. But only the Town of Lansing and its residents can insure that the story will be told to the generations yet born.
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