Exhibits / Boede Homestead Family Household
The largest of the six cabins comprising the Orcas Island Historical Museum facility was initially the home of John and Rachel Boede and their nine children.
Built during the late 1880s, homesteader Andrew Nordstrom helped hew the logs in preparation for construction. The structure was configured using dovetail notched corners. The building originally included a sleeping loft, although this architectural component was not salvaged when the cabin was moved to the Museum’s property in the 1950s.
As the cabin was only 425 square feet in size, the three girls slept upstairs in the loft, the parents slept in the main room, and the six boys slept in lean-tos built off the outside of the structure!
