House Inside A Redwood Log
St. Augustine, Florida
This log house may 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 (although the Famous One-Log House in California claims 1946 as the year it was turned into a home).
This tree house 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 redwood roof leaks.