Historic Hullinger cabins move to Naples
Jim Goodman surveys the two other cabins at the Hullinger homestead just prior to being dismantled and removed from the property. (Marjorie Goodman/Submitted Photo)
A line of traffic backed up for more than a mile waits behind Blair Fisher Enterprises’ transport trucks carrying the Hullinger Cabin. This was the scene in Naples as the historic cabin was moved Feb. 25 from its original Jensen home north on US Hwy 40.
(Marjorie Goodman/Submitted Photo)
(Marjorie Goodman/Submitted Photo)
Uintah County Historic Preservation Board was contacted in October by three sisters: Kim Jones of Ephraim, Debbie Buckendorf of Rock Springs and Carol from Hanna, who wished to donate several historic cabins on land they had inherited some time ago. The buildings are the remains of the Doc Hullinger family homestead.
The land was under contract for sale, and the new owners were anxious to develop the property, possibly bulldozing the cabins. Once the board learned of the situation they were eager to help save the cabins.
Doc Hullinger was one of the earliest, if not the first, physicians to practice medicine in the Uintah Basin and did so, up until a few months of his death in 1926 at age 101. In 1885, he built one of the first schools at his own expense, paying for the school teacher for the first year.
Doc Hullinger was a prominent figure, helping to settle affairs after the Meeker Massacre in 1879. He was a man who exemplified the best in human nature and contributed greatly to the settling of this area.
Up until October, Doc’s homestead cabin was in doubt because it had been sided and altered over the years. Once the siding was removed an unusual building was revealed underneath. Its historic structure is an outstanding example in both size and quality of the fine log home construction of a Uintah Basin homestead.
Jim and I along with others dismantled and moved the two smaller cabins, but the sisters undertook the expense of moving the larger cabin intact. Lorn Richins and Craig Knight offered to take the cabin and re-locate it to it’s temporary home at Superior Mud Wash in Naples.
Our dream is to someday find a place for several such historic buildings, perhaps at Western Park or the Buckskin Hills complex. We are asking the community to make their wishes known as to where this cabin and possibly others should go and to help get it done. And, if you have an old cabin that you are about to destroy please let us know by calling 781-1504.
The land was under contract for sale, and the new owners were anxious to develop the property, possibly bulldozing the cabins. Once the board learned of the situation they were eager to help save the cabins.
Doc Hullinger was one of the earliest, if not the first, physicians to practice medicine in the Uintah Basin and did so, up until a few months of his death in 1926 at age 101. In 1885, he built one of the first schools at his own expense, paying for the school teacher for the first year.
Doc Hullinger was a prominent figure, helping to settle affairs after the Meeker Massacre in 1879. He was a man who exemplified the best in human nature and contributed greatly to the settling of this area.
Up until October, Doc’s homestead cabin was in doubt because it had been sided and altered over the years. Once the siding was removed an unusual building was revealed underneath. Its historic structure is an outstanding example in both size and quality of the fine log home construction of a Uintah Basin homestead.
Jim and I along with others dismantled and moved the two smaller cabins, but the sisters undertook the expense of moving the larger cabin intact. Lorn Richins and Craig Knight offered to take the cabin and re-locate it to it’s temporary home at Superior Mud Wash in Naples.
Our dream is to someday find a place for several such historic buildings, perhaps at Western Park or the Buckskin Hills complex. We are asking the community to make their wishes known as to where this cabin and possibly others should go and to help get it done. And, if you have an old cabin that you are about to destroy please let us know by calling 781-1504.
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