Denny Cabin - Federal Way, Washington - Relocated Structures on Waymarking.com

David Denny was part of the Denny Party considered to be the original founders of the city of Seattle. On January 24, 1853, he filed a claim on 320 acres of land including the southwestern slope of Queen Anne Hill and Lake Union. In the 1860’s David Denny
platted and developed the area between present Denny Way to the southern shore of Lake Union.

In 1889, the year Washington achieved statehood,the log cabin known as Denny Cabin, was built to house David Denny's real estate office. Over it’s lifetime it has served many functions including a tavern, a kindergarten classroom and a men’s prayer meeting house.

In 1966 Jack Cissna purchased the cabin and moved it to Federal Way to be part of his Old Line Historic Park and Shopping Mall. In 1989, proposed construction of a road where the cabin stood forced some sort of action to be taken to save the Denny cabin which was standing in the south end of the Federal Way Shopping Center. Two other cabins left over from the Heritage Village Park sat at the north end of the shopping mall. These were the Barker cabin (built by a homesteader to the area in 1889) and a cabin Cissna claimed was built by the Hudson’s Bay Company (although most think this was only a replica). The Denny Cabin was moved Saturday December 14, 1991 by the Federal Way Historical Society to a temporary location near the Brooklake Community Center on South 356th Street. The Denny Cabin was then moved in 1992 to its present location on city property at 348th Street and Fourth Avenue South, near the entrance of Hylebos State Park. Slightly later the Barker cabin was moved to this same location. The City of Federal Way Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services is working with the Historical Society of Federal Way to develop the location as a historic site park to be known as Historic Cabin Park. Starting in 1995 restoration was begun on both cabins.

The cabin is a one and one-half story horizontal hewn log cabin with a medium pitch, gable shake roof. The dimensions are 22 feet by 22 feet with the front half bayed to give the cabin six sides. Photographs of other structures in the general area show them to
be built of lumber rather than logs, so this must have been one of the few log cabins constructed in 1889. It was probably built of logs to make the real estate office more distinctive.

How it was moved: Wheels / Dolly / Truck Type of move: City to City Building Status: Public Original Location: Not Listed Related Website: Not listed

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