These log mansions come complete with home theatre and lakeside exercise room.
Foremost, it's an incubator for disease all those animals packed in close, eating and sleeping for months on each other's piss and shit, the snow piled high behind them in the mountains covering any feed, and the quaint complex of Jackson's log mansions, hobby ranches, and overpriced kitsch stores blocking their path south.
In long, intoxicating sentences, with chains of adjectives and commas strung out across the page like telegraph lines through a forest, Pynchon mapped the city and its hinterland: a maze of old logging mansions and unmarked roads, sudden fogs and "long redwood mountainslopes where shadows came early and brought easy suspicion of another order of things".
At the memorial we watched early footage of her family - there she was, a child growing up literally in a log cabin mansion.
Spend the afternoon touring Fontanel, the log cabin mansion where singing tour guides dispense gossip (Oprah Winfrey once cooked in Barbara's kitchen), play guitar and show you the six bedrooms, indoor shooting range, soda fountain and indoor pool.
WHAT -- 5-bedroom house HOW MUCH -- $22,000,000 Saddle Mountain Ranch's two-story log-style mansion has nearly 18,000 square feet of living space.
The picturesque mountains are dotted with enormous multimillion-dollar, 20,000-square-foot "log cabin-style" mansions.
Red Lodge is attracting more second-home buyers and retirees, lured by its stark beauty, the Mayberry R.F.D.-like social structure and the wide range of available housing — from in-town condominiums, to miner's shacks, to Victorian mansions, to contemporary log homes and ranches.
Joseph Smith Historic Site includes the Joseph Smith Homestead (1803), the original log hut of the Smith family, and the Joseph Smith Mansion House (1843), built as Smith's permanent residence.
The visit includes a 15-minute film, a stop in the museum on the former cotton plantation, a self-guided archaeology walk, Jackson's tomb, some of the original log cabins on the property (one built to house slaves and another that was home to the Jacksons before the mansion was finished), the Old Hermitage Church and a tour of the mansion.
