Brayside Log Cabins

These 2 buildings from the early 1800s demonstrate the architectural styles and materials of the early buildings in this region. Teskey Smith purchased the Tavistock log cabin and moved it to this site. The cabin was about to be torn down and had the outer cladding removed. Seeing the log walls of the building about to be torn down, he offered to purchase them and paid $100 for the building and having it disassembled and moved to the current site. All the logs were marked so they could be reassembled exactly as before. The Smiths held a cabin raising bee and invited friends and neighbours to help reconstruct the cabin. Teskey and his son prepared the footings and installed the foundation row prior to the elevating. They also put in the floor joists and the subfloor for the main floor. On September 29, 1962, the raising took place. By the evening, all of the walls had been completed, and the roof had been installed following supper. In the summer of 1963, a chinking bee was held. Teskey and his wife built this two-story cabin as their home, leaving the mill to their children and grandkids. The New Dundee Cabin was bought in 1972, during the construction of a new Dunee Golf Course. The log cottage was uncovered after the siding of the farmhouse was removed.Teskey was contacted and bought the building for $500 but this time he had to dismantle and move it himself. Being a three story building made the reconstruction more difficult but the logs were very well preserved. It was result to the west of the Tavistock cabin and connected with an addition. The addition was replaced in 1993 due to leaking rooves.