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Log Cabin to be rededicated
Charry Doffek
Issue date: 7/4/07 Section: News
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The Halverson Log Cabin has been residing near Hyer Hall at the University of Whitewater-Wisconsin for 100 years.
The cabin is locally known as the "Halverson Log Cabin" or simply the "Log Cabin" said Michele Smith, Whitewater City Clerk.
Gulik Halverson built the cabin in Richmond, Wis. in 1846, according to the UW-Whitewater Web site,
The Log Cabin stands 16 feet by 20.5 feet.
It was donated in 1907 to UW-Whitewater and moved to the campus piece by piece through the efforts of former University President Albert Salisbury, according to the Web site.
"[The] Log Cabin was restored on the grounds of the Normal School … to commemorate the pioneering spirit of Whitewater's early residents," said Michele Schulz, a historian on www.whitewaterbanner.com.
The first Whitewater Home-Coming took place in 1907. During the festival, the Halverson Log Cabin was dedicated by Salisbury.
The cabin served as a museum and was renovated by the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1964, the university's Web site said.
In 1985, it was added to the Wisconsin State and National Register of Historic Places. The State of Wisconsin gained ownership of the cabin.
The Register lists the Halverson Log Cabin as having a "single dwelling, domestic" historic function. Its current function is "vacant/not in use."
It is listed as a "historically significant event" and is now "significant in the area of education."
The greatest "periods of significance" for the Cabin according to the Register are "1900-24" and "1925-49."
The Log Cabin was restored once again in 1999 through both private and state funding, according to the UW-Whitewater Web site.
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