The Lindgren Cabin

This page is dedicated to news and information about the historic Lindgren Cabin.

The historic Lindgren Cabin, as well as the original building housing the sauna and storage room, rests on a plot of ground near Cullaby Lake. The official address is 89990 Hawkins Road, Warrenton, Oregon 97146. Clatsop County owns the land, the care and maintenance falls upon the Columbia-Pacific Chapter of Finlandia Foundation (FFCPC).

The cabin has an interesting history, which goes back to Erik Lindgren, a Swedish Finn who was born in 1861 near Tammela in southwest Finland. With the help of a friend, William Merilä, Erik built a barn, a sauna, and eventually a log house. Work was completed by 1928.

The Lindgren Cabin was ax hewn out of old growth Oregon Red Cedar logs. Some of those trees were nine feet in diameter. The cabin was 40feet long and 24-feet wide. Erik and William Merilä hewed those timbers into planks 4-1/2 inches thick and 42 inches wide. The logs were so squarely hewn that Erik did not need to do any chinking. The five-room cabin was put together with scarcely a nail. Erik fishtailed the corner planks, cut each outside wall plank at a cant to keep out the rain, erected 42-foot eave timbers gouged out for rain runoff, and used wooden dowels to hold together the long and wide wall planks. The boards of the roof were rain tight.


Clatsop Country Cultural Coalition Grant

Finlandia Foundation Columbia-Pacific Chapter (FFCPC) gratefully acknowledges the $1000 grant from the Clatsop Country Cultural Coalition to winterize the historic Lindgren Cabin. We thank the members of the Cultural Coalition for helping preserve this historic cabin, an ax-hewn 24-40’ cabin constructed out of Oregon Red Cedar in the late 1920s by Erik Lindgren, a Swedish Finn.” The original site was at Soapstone Creek in the Hamlet area, and in 1968 there was an agreement between the Oregon Department of Forestry and Clatsop County to relocate The Lindgren Cabin to Cullaby Lake Park. The cabin is open for viewing to the public on the weekends between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. FFCPC also thanks the Astoria Lodge and Ryan Prochaska (Historic Preservation, CCC) for helping us maintain the cabin and volunteering as cabin hosts during the summer.


The following are newspaper articles, photos, and other historic information relating to the history of the Lindgren Cabin.