Albert T. Fancher, a former New York State senator and chairman of the Allegany State Park Commission, had this colonial-style lodge built in the summer of 1927. Its interior included a large combination living and dining room with a massive stone fireplace built from stone found within Allegany State Park, while the lodge’s logs came from nearby Pennsylvania. Experts cut and joined the logs to create a 45-foot by 30-foot cabin that matched the park’s rustic ambience. Albert T. and Musette (Barker) Fancher used the lodge and kept a stable of horses nearby, and a 1928 photograph shows them entertaining a visiting couple from England. Since Mrs. Fancher’s death in 1944, the cabin has been used by successive Allegany State Park Commission chairpeople and State Park commissioners. Fancher’s will also provided money for a swimming pool in the Quaker area and for landscaping around the Red House Administration Building.