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Pigeon Hpnse Jfot Ordinary 



Even the pigeon house Is built op- 

 posite from usual styles of architec- 

 ture. This seems like topsy-turvy 

 land. Bird or pigeon houses are 

 UIBually smaller and set high in the 

 air on a tall pole. This house is 

 three feet long, two feet high to the 

 eaves and 18 inches wide. Not a 

 very heavy structure, yet it is set on 

 four posts, each eig!)t inches in di- 

 ameter and eight feet from the 

 ground. The front of the house Is 

 painted to represent big barn doors. 

 The sides of the house is open, to 

 admit the birds, but has swinging 

 doors that may be let down in case 

 of storm. 



The home camp Is very rustic. It 

 has slabs for outside boarding and 

 very ornamantal door. Coming out 

 of the roof and the front gable end 

 are large pine limbs Ingeniously 

 placed in the root, or rather the Toof 

 is placed around them. The spiles 

 are green, and while no tree is visi- 

 ble within the camp, careful exam- 

 ination shows that Moller ingenious- 

 ly built the cabin around a small 

 pine tree, working the trunk of tbe 

 tree into the door casing. 



Motlier's Cabin BeantlfiiL 

 Next to the theatre building there 

 is another cabin^ — most wonderful of 

 all. Presumbaly this was the cabin 

 which Mrs Moller occupied. The In- 

 terior is entirely lined with great 

 sheets of birch bark, the whole lin- 

 ing paneled off with wooden strips 

 one inch wide, painted a brilliant 

 red. The effect is striking. Even 

 the studding which shows inside the 

 room is painted with white stripes 

 In diamond effect. 

 The insides of the various doors in 



I the different bttlldings are lined with 

 bark or slmll?.r material. Some are 



I first covered with canvas which, after j 

 I being painted a yellowish tint, are | 



paneled off with red strips. Many of 

 the ceilings, even, are covered! with 

 birch bark and inlaid with the red 

 strips. Some ceilings are first cov- 

 ered with matting. The ceiling of 

 the tiny Grecian Temple is Inlaid 

 with more than 100 eight by eight- 

 Inch squares. 



Hours and hours of labor! Dayd 

 and days of labor : Years and years 

 of labor! Nights in June that were 

 hot and sticky ; fatigued man after a 

 day of nerve-racking puttering over 

 the intricate paneling. Endless cor- 

 respondence with New York dealers 

 over gold paint, gold leaf. Such for- 

 titude by a man handicapped with 

 physical pain. Then tragedy! A 

 heartbroken mother, who never 

 wanted to see the spot again where 

 every bit of intricate building would 

 ^rlng back the sad memory of some 

 Summertime afternoon. 

 Now vandals and destruction! 



