In the fall of 1863, Thomas Sleight and Charles Atkins built this cabin, and they and their wives, Marianne and Ann, occupied it together during the first winter of the settlement of Paris, Idaho. It was first finished with a dirt floor and a sod roof. Its logs were stripped of bark and notched but not cut or otherwise shaped, and they were chinked with mud to keep out the wind. The windows and door frames were set in with wooden pegs, and it was ready for occupancy before the snow fell.