While attending a Rendezvous at Fort De Chartres, in southwestern IL, I noticed a small log cabin built in the French style.
Instead of stacking hewn logs in a horizontal fashion, the French set the logs upright. The logs were pegged on the bottom to a horizontal footer and pegged on the a top with a horizontal header.
The gaps between the logs were filled with stones and a chinking mixture of mud, clay, horsehair or cat-tails.
This small building is a good example of French construction. The back half of this shed is being used as a chicken coop. I suspect the front half is used to store tools or seeds or grain.
The original church (St Francois-Xavier) in my grandparent's village (Petite Riviere) at the foot of Le Massif, a popular Quebec ski resort, was built with vertical log walls.
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