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From Broad Axe to Clay Chinking
Pineview
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In the Pineview area, on Bendixon Road, there is a neat little house up on a hill overlooking the valley below. This was built around 1930 by some Swedish people. According to the story, a bunch of Swedes were up in the mountains, where they had a family portable sawmill, cutting wood and hauling it to town with horses and wagon. A whole gang came down on a Friday and by Sunday the structure was up, roof and all. They had a big bonfire and the girls cooked while the men built on the house. Alfred Nordgren was one of the builders. Carl Lindstedt had cleared the big field and had selected the logs to build with. He started at the south end of the field, clearing it, swath by swath, from east to west, working his way north.
The walls were built by standing the vertical logs on end on two horizontal sill logs at the bottom, which were likely spiked, and one log on top, the plate log, which was spiked. The rafters sat on this top log or plate. The logs were chinked with everything imaginable from newspaper to burlap bags, ladies’ knickers, and even a good pair of men's long johns. Chicken wire was placed over this and then it was plastered with cement. The inside of the house also had newspaper on the log walls which were then covered over with paper or gyproc.
When the present owner bought the farm, the bottom logs were rotten and the building was sliding over about 4 1/2 feet so he cut all the bottom rot off. It took him 5 years to restore this building as he was doing it mostly in his spare time and then after retirement. It is now used as a guesthouse. It has an upstairs in it and the original stairway going up. Doors and knobs and windows are all original.
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