The unique "Cookie House" was built circa 1931 by John Foster Bass, Jr. (1897-1939), founder of the Bass Biological Laboratory and Zoological Research Supply Company, to serve as his personal office and laboratory near the Bass home on New Point Comfort Road near Gottfried Creek. The Bass operation was the first full-time land-based marine station on the Florida mainland, where eminent naturalists, biologists, and zoologists studied and identified at least 470 marine and terrestrial animals between 1931 and 1944. The small one-story Cookie House is a rare example of log "stovewood" construction and architectural style, once popular among rural Wisconsin immigrant populations, with no other examples known in Florida. This practical pioneer building technique used local resources, stacking log disks cut from lighter knot pine logs on edge in cement mortar mixed with beach sand, creating an appearance like brown cookies on a white plate. As many as a dozen log cabins were built on the Bass property in the 1930s, but all of the other Bass structures were demolished over the years, leaving the historic Cookie House as the only one remaining today. It was relocated within the Lemon Bay estuary in 2006 and moved to Cedar Point Environmental Park in a public-private effort to ensure its preservation.