The one-room log home built in 1837 where journeyman tailor Caspar Ott and his wife, Maria Elizabetha, raised their seven children is the oldest standing building in Lake County. In 1970, just one week before it was to be demolished the house was discovered under the plaster of the dining room in the Siljerstrom farmhouse. The building was moved to the Historic Village by the Historical Society. In the early 1990s, the Historical Society began a fundraising campaign to restore the building and move it to a new site at the Village. In 2001, the cabin was restored to its original appearance by the Historical Society with funds from members, local organizations and the community. Now the house stands as it looked 170 years ago.