House Inside A Redwood Log
St. Augustine, Florida
This log house could have been cut from the same grove as the Famous One-Log House in redwood-happy northern California. It has obviously logged some mileage to end up over 3,000 miles from its birthplace, a free part of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum. A sign out front, painted to resemble a strangely cheerful tree, notes that a total of four "houses" were gutted from a single goliath trunk in 1938 (the Famous One-Log House claims 1946 as the year it was turned into a home). This one is 33 feet long and 8 feet high, has four rooms inside, and little entrance lamps on either end. A walk-through is cramped, dark, and brief.
The log is held together with multiple encircling straps of iron, and a sky blue tarp has been draped over it from end to end. Evidently, after all the years and miles, its roof leaks.
House Inside A Redwood Log
- Address:
- 19 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, FL [Show Map]
- Directions:
- Parked at the south edge of the parking lot of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum.
- Admission:
- Free.
- Phone:
- 904-824-1606
Nearby Offbeat Places
- Fountain of Youth, St. Augustine, FL - < 1 mi.
- The Old Jail, St. Augustine, FL - < 1 mi.
- St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, St. Augustine, FL - 2 mi.
- In the region: Life-Size Steel Replica Of The First Airplane, Daytona Beach, FL - 52 mi.
