Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1911 — Log House Being Built of Logs Cut In Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Log House Being Built of Logs Cut In Jasper County.

The following is taken from Sunday’s Indianapolis Star: An old fashioned house warming will be observed In an old-fashioned house when Larry McGowan, 533 Holly avenue, Completes a new home which he is building at 2006 Wilkins street The house is being constructed of logs, which Mr. McGowan cut himself near Rensselaer, on the farm of a brother-in-law, and he expects to spend the remainder of his life in it enjoying the sort of Jiving that he did when a boy. . : - Instead of being weatherboarded, the walls of the house will be left bare, the chinks between the logs being filled with plaster and the inside ing filied with plasted and the inside walls, as Mr. McGowan says: “wih be the same as those outside except they will have a few pictures hanging on them.” The upper story of the house will be weatherboarded am: the roof will contain ordinary shingle* Mr. McGowan was born in a log cabin near Greencastle, lud., fifty-four years ago, and has never forgotten the comforts of his old home. When a young man he spent about twelve years cutting and hauling logs. In his recent log cutting h«- v says that he got along pretty well although it was '“kinda irksome” at first His mother who is 85 years old, is living in this city and is taking a great deal of interest in the new house. Several residents of West Indianapolis’ say this is the first log house erected in that part of the city.