Log Cabin life list addition - Tower Park St Charles County

 We are lucky to live in a county that has a very good park system.
They ranch from good urban parks to nice country or rural parks.
Tower Park has been around now for about ten years,  and this old brick home is one of the cornerstones of this rural park.
Once called 'The Pink Plantation' after going into disrepair it was moved and rebuilt.

Driving by the park last weekend I noticed they had added two log cabins.
So today I was able to go by.

This is how you first see them as you leave the parking lot.

The closest one is this one.
It has been reconstructed as a smoke house, which may have been its original purpose.

It is a very recent project.

The tags are still on the logs and the newly cut ends are still brown and not gray.
Very few of the logs have gray ends, so there has been a lot of replacements.

 'V' notches.

The only problem I can see with the project is that for some reason the chinking has already started to crack.

That either means it got really cold when it was drying or that there is not good support between the logs behind the chinking.
In this one you can see how bad it is cracking.

 I have a feeling this was rebuilt from logs from more than one project. That would explain the new notches on so many logs.

The foundation is very well done.

 Along the walk for these building are some nice plaques explaining the purpose of such buildings.

 Just across the field from the smoke house is this building.

It is a very nice two story.

 They have made sure to replace the windows with 6 over 6 which is very period.

The window boarded over here was probably not part of the original configuration and it would be fun to find out where this building came from.

 There are only two problems I see with this building. I don't know if problem is the right word, but there, I said it.

On both buildings, although perhaps maybe how they were at one time, the lack of over hang on the side, front or back means the logs will be exposed to lots of rain and water run off, which could damage the logs very quickly.

 Second would be having the stove pipe come out of the walls instead of the roof.

There are a couple of reasons for this having to do with flue gases and draft.

There is a math formula if you ever want to check it out.

Again, the foundation is very well done.
I hope to some day get to go inside these two.

 Again, another nice sign explaining some of the things on your walk.

 Another view of the Pink Plantation.

This time with the summer kitchen.

 If you ever wondered about summer kitchens. . . . .

 And a little bit on the old brick house.

I just love this park.

Thanks St. Charles.