1937 Steiner Log Church (near Welches, OR - USA)

[Gary R. Smith]

These are pretty much straight out of the camera (although I did downsize them). Shot at ISO 6400, not too much noise.





It's not easy being green...

1937 Steiner Log Church

www.steinerchurch.com

 

[Gary R. Smith]

The funny thing about this church is that it was moved to the current location from up the road a bit. Quite a bit of the interior has been redone but in the style of other Steiner cabins. Steiner apparent built some 100 or so in and around Mt.Hood.

 

[Wes Hall]

Good lord Gary, they’re clean for 6400 iso from camera! Nice work, particularly that opening shot- I can smell the forest air with that hint of resin smell.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

That truck is 100 years old?

I don't think so. It looks a bit like an M51 5-ton 6 x 6 circa WW2.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

I can smell the forest air with that hint of resin smell.

Wes, the inside smelled heavenly with the fireplace going and at least 3 other wood stoves.
They apparently only open the place on the 1st Saturday of the month. The guy made a comment about how long it took to warm the place up.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

I've done a set in similar camoflage gear I'll dig them out.

Maybe not 100 but probably 80 anyway... The moss on it might be that old...

 

[Peter Roberts]

Just caught up with this, Gary. What an interesting place. Thanks for the link.
I like the way the sense of warmth coming through the windows has been captured. Either the fireplace and stoves or the welcome, perhaps both.
It the risk of banging on about the truck, perhaps the Steiners used it for hauling logs? If so its appropriate that it's there.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

What an interesting place.

It struck me as pretentious to include the date which over here is intended to suggest age yet for most of the rest of the civilized world a structure that went up in 1937 would be considered "new".

 

[Peter Roberts]

It struck me as pretentious to include the date

That didn't even occur to me.
The perception of age is related to context and location. This log church is a survivor of a certain time and place and deserves to be appreciated as such.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

This log church is a survivor of a certain time and place

Oddly enough, it was moved from a nearby location.

 

[Peter Roberts]

Oddly enough, it was moved from a nearby location.

Here in the UK there is an open air museum dedicated to displaying old buildings, small to be sure, that have been painstakingly dismantled and then reassembled. Interestingly enough there's one there that my father played a small part in saving. He was a civil engineer and the road project he was in charge of called for the demolition of this building. He realised that it was actually much older than it appeared to be and had an archaeological survey done. 16th century I think it turned out to be. I must stir myself to go and see it one day.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

These Steiner builds are somewhat common here in Oregon with something like 100 + cabins built by them and two churches. They all exhibit similar build characteristics.

 

[Beth Anthony]

that's a cool old church, though i wonder what the interior walls did for the choir's acoustics. the old moss covered truck out back is my favorite of the shots, hard to walk away from something like that without taking a photo.

 

[Gary Ayala]

To me, the structure seems like an oasis in the middle of the forrest. Good stuff. The truck is wonderfully camouflaged.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

I think it odd that the church was moved to this location from a relatively nearby original plot.

 

[Gary Ayala]

I think it odd that the church was moved to this location from a relatively nearby original plot.

Maybe more parking ...

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Maybe more parking

Maybe not? There's only enough room for about 3 cars. Of course, I have no idea what the parking was like at the other location.