The homeplace was the heart and headquarters of a working farm, where the family lived, children were schooled, and activity bustled especially when weather forced people indoors. Following a traditional design traceable back to the Scottish Highlands, John Robert Patrick built this cabin for his family of seven in the 1850s. It was inhabited until about 1970, and in 1976 the house was relocated here from the Sharon/McConnell area, some twenty miles away.