Abraham Cabin + Sauna

Gunflint Trail, Grand Marais, MN, United States

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Abraham Cabin + Sauna

Gunflint Trail, Grand Marais, MN, United States

Firm

dennisMcGRATHdesign, LLC.

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2000

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

$100K - 500K

Cabin and sauna retreat sheds in northern Minnesota:

These northern Minnesota cabin and sauna retreat sheds are architecture in celebration of timber located in the recreational Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) just south of the Canadian border.

The main structural members of this pair of sheds are Douglass fir-larch cut from the north woods, sawn into dimension lumber, and shipped to Minneapolis in the late 19th century where they spent their prime working days in the city as the heavy timber structural frame of a commercial warehouse.

removed in the renovation of the building, the members have now returned north to this peaceful location where they continue in service at a reduced load. here, surrounded by the tortured remains of a second-growth forest that was ravished by 100 mph straight-line winds in 1999, these timbers have taken on a second life in the country of their origin.