French Style Log Cabin

Attending a Rendezvous at Fort De Chartres, in southwestern IL, I saw a small log cabin constructed in the New France style. Instead of stacking square-hewn logs in a horizontal fashion with inter-locking corners, the French set these 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 or clay mixed with straw, horsehair or cat-tails.

The back half of this particular 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 Charlevoix village, in Quebec, was built by this same vertical log walls technique.
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