The 19th-century log home moved for a newer farmhouse

The Pfarr Log House was built in or before 1825. It was not a rough heap of logs but a structured home of square-cut timbers. Builders used steeple notching, a construction method often employed in buildings constructed before 1825. It sat on a stone foundation with a metal roof and a shallow pitch.

George Pfarr immigrated from Bavaria with his wife and three children. He purchased the 21-acre homestead in late 1840. A butcher and farmer, Pfarr kept the property in his family until it was sold to Jim Wiederhold in 1976. The house was so isolated that a photographer looking for it once gave up and photographed a random 1930s log structure made for a pay lake instead. You could only reach it by a long gravel drive paralleling Shayler Run creek or by a steep gravel track going down into the creek valley.

In 1910, the family moved the cabin to make room for a newer farmhouse. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 1977. In 2007, a local businessman bought the cabin and dismantled it to move it to his property near Milford.

The original site by Shayler Run creek is now off-limits due to municipal public works. The house is no longer standing in its original location. You can still see the gravel drive in satellite images, a mark in the clearing where the logs used to stand.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons