Please Buy This Cabin
Steiner cabins are scattered around Oregon and they're architectural gems and one can be yours today!
I just want you to know that for the reasonable price of $1.63 million, you could live along the Sandy River in a beautiful and late-stage model of a Steiner cabin. No, not the sort of moody one above, which is lovely and historic and built by Henry Steiner, but the big and flashy one below with orange shutters, which was built by Henry’s son, John.
The Oregonian (my beloved hometown rag!) has a whole story on the house this week. Reading those precious words is available only to subscribers—which I am not—but you can at least see the photo gallery, and I suggest you do so because this Steiner’s a doozy!
One reason I’m excited about this is because I covered Steiner cabins some years back when I wrote about Henry Steiner, the patriarch of the Steiner clan, for Willamette Week. Here’s a sample:
Not only are the nearly century-old Steiners some of the oldest log cabins in the country still standing, they're also some of the most distinctive. Their A-frames and straight, strong timbers are set off by doorways made with snow-bent trees and rockers made of tree roots—hardscrabble artistry made of mismatched parts. (Ed. Note: Too many “mades”.)
His work is as far-flung as the Oregon Writers Colony in Rockaway Beach and the massive hexagonal posts forming the spine of Timberline Lodge. Iconic examples of the National Park Service style that swept Depression-era building and rural vitalization by the Works Progress Administration throughout the early 20th century, they're also among the few true architectural treasures you can rent for the weekend: Most remain along the winding, root-gnarled roads laced out around Highway 26.
Steiner’s family went through some tragedy, and I knew John Steiner had repaired his family’s cabins over the years, but I didn’t know he made his own.
So that’s all. Just buy that cabin and then invite me out for a barbecue! I’ll bring some decent wine.
So. Much. Glowing. Wood.
I'd live there.
Which FLW house!?!??! I dig cabins, though I'm even more of a sucker for great modern architecture!