Judge Wakefield's house

Judge Wakefield's house - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

John Allen Wakefield and his family was one of the first settlers to come to the newly created Kansas Territory. Free soilers, they arrived in western Douglas County, Kansas, in July 1854, one month after the territory was opened to settlement. They built a large log house to serve primarily as their living quarters. It had six rooms and was west of the free-state stronghold of Lawrence, Kansas. For protection the family built loop holes for guns into the sides of the house.W. H. T. Wakefield, "Early History of Kanwaka Township," unpublished address delivered in western Douglas County, July 4, 1876, pp. 1, 9 (from the Manuscript Div. of the Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, Kans.). Read more on Wikipedia

type: military structure
date from: 1854

Source: en.wikipedia.org