Shreds of wallpaper match the flowered pattern in the cozy back room depicted in an 1898 photograph now hanging at Kasilof Mercantile. Worn dusty boards recall the shining floors of a century ago, and the joinery of the old log walls is eyecatching even today. The front wall is shingled with the tin used to build salmon cans. But vandals have torn down the wallpaper and ripped out much of the lumber that lined the inner walls. They have broken out the windows, torn out the stairs and ripped up much of the floor.
Graffiti mars what's left.
Alan Boraas, a professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College, said the cabin is one of the oldest buildings on the Kenai Peninsula.