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54_____. Architect/Builder: not known Building Materials: log with stucco pialfaiJding Type/Style: vernacular Description of physical-appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) w^st portion of this house, a log cabin type, was probably built sometime in the late' hineteehth~century by one of a number of owners (see below), The logs on this section are hewn square, chinked, and are held at the corners with a half-dovetail timber­ ing technique. The house is only one^-room and has a symmetrical three-opening facade. The east section of the house, also a oner-room log cabin type house, was added to the earlier structure in the twentieth-century, Easton Kelsey maintains that it was his father-in-law, Calvert Allred, who dragged it to this site "around 1912 or 1913." This section is of sawed logs and full dovetail construction, ; The entire structure was stuccoed in the 19.30 *s, Statement of Historical Significance: D Aboriginal Americans D Agriculture dc^rchitecture D The Arts D Commerce . D D D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D D D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D D D Religion Science Socio-Humanjtarian Transportation This small house contributes to the nineteenth-century character offspring City and effectively demonstrates the willingness of local residents to add house elements to older structures as they saw fit. Placing two small square cabins together was a common solution to the problem of space, but usually it becomes difficult to mask the structure's real identity as two separate houses. Visual disorder is the price the builder paid for internal comfort. ; The 1870 deed goes to Joseph T, Ellis, In 1879, Christian Petersen buys the lot for $55, in 1883 Sammuel Bunnel gets it for $100, in 1884 Niels Adler buys it for $130. Adler holds the lot until 1884 when it sells to Lucy A. Allred for $150. Calvert never shpwsvup in the abstract, but it is possible that, as the Allreds do retain!title to the land through the 1920's, he could indeed have added the east log structure to th'e existing cabin, which could have been built by any one of the original owners.