Caleb Pike Homestead 2
by Marilyn Wilson
Title
Caleb Pike Homestead 2
Artist
Marilyn Wilson
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
This little house was built in 1883, just outside of Victoria, B.C. The house is 20 x 30 feet and has 5 bedrooms, a kitchen and a sitting room. Built with love by hand, using a cross cut saw, broad axe and adze, Caleb Pike and his sons constructed this little farmhouse with laboriously squared Douglas Fir logs, neatly dovetailed at the corners. They stacked up and joined entire logs before cutting windows and doors into the new, thick walls. The hardworking settlers then placed smaller logs across the top of the structure as ceiling joists to support a second floor, and above that erected pole rafters, strapping and a gable roof of hand-split shake.
The little house is now preserved as part of the Highland Heritage Park Society.
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August 9th, 2015
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