December 1, 2009: We have a Black Forest log package, pre- assembled, in stock for $20,500. The size is 2 feet narrower than what you see online, otherwise, it is very similar to the floor plan online. Please call for details.
April 3, 2009: We are finding 2009 a busy year so far with some large log home orders, and many orders for increasingly smaller log homes and log cabins. There seems to be a general trend toward smaller log homes, and a high emphasis on energy efficiency, which is what we're all about: Energy efficiency!
A number of people are moving to our area and building a Meadowlark Log Home. Many folks enjoy northwest Montana's surprisingly mild climate which has a good growing season. There seem to be many folks who are serious about living in the country and growing their own food and raising their own animals. Since this is what we grew up with, it seems like the natural smart thing to do, especially during these times.
April 2, 2009: We choose to not pay a lot of attention to the media, which continues to spread the gloomy economic news each day. Rather, we desire to trust our Heavenly Father who is our real provider. We suggest for anyone struggling with these issues to turn to Him who is the answer to all of humankind's problems. While the world systems continue to shake, we have a Kingdom which can never be shaken and we believe that Jesus is the King.
April 1, 2009: If you check out Meadowlark's newly re-designed online store in the coming days, you will see our beautiful log playsets, log tables, and smaller log pavilions. We will be adding new products on the store continuously. Eventually, we hope to have a large amount of log products and accessories available for viewing at the online store, so you can custom order exactly what you want.
March 25, 2009: We are adding the following product lines available for immediate order:
1.Log playgound equipment and log swing sets of an unlimited variety of sizes and designs.
2. Log Pavilions in any size from 4'x4' (16 square feet) to 20,000 sq. ft. and even bigger, in Meadowlark's time- tested Amish timber frame style of construction. See the main page of this website at Amish TimberFrames for pictures of our pavilions.
3. Mailbox covers and bus stops in an unlimited variety of styles.
These can be custom ordered to fit your needs. All of these product lines are affordably priced and offer great value. Every Meadowlark product is constructed with LHC grade stamped materials, so you can be assured of highest quality. All Meadowlark products are available for worldwide delivery. All of our product lines are also available with a professional, trained representative to come to your site to assist with construction, or to re assemble the product from start to finish. This service is also availailable in all countries.
Our highly skilled Amish timber framers are trained to pre assemble not only log homes, but an unlimited variety of log timber frames, log pavilions, log screen porches, log bus stops, log mailbox roof covers, log tables, log additions, log sunrooms, log hot tub roof covers, log porch additions, log entry ways, log carports, log green houses, log barns, log garages, log sheds, log shops, log trusses, log sunbursts, log entry gates, log fences, and any other log or log post construction structure you can dream of.
March 24 , 2009: Meadowlark will pre assemble the log playset swingset for Pioneer Park in Libby, Mt. Our own playset at our grocery store can be viwed on our online store on this website, and is available for purchase as a kit to put back together on your location.
March 23 , 2009: Meadowlark Log Homes is pleased to announce some exciting new product lines. In December, 2008, the City of Libby, Mont. asked Meadowlark Log Homes to provide a log playset swing set for one of Libby's parks called Pioneer Park. We drew up the plans for the playground equipment, then we built a playset for our own location first, at the Farm To Market Store. After assembling the playset, we had an engineer approve the design to assure it would be safe and built according to international playground equipment standards. Of course, like all Meadowlark products, the playset is unique in design, of exceptional strength, quality, and last but not least, beautiful. Very soon, you can view this charming log playset on Meadowlark's Online Store right here on this website.
March 23, 2009: Our first sighting of a meadowlark bird for the year, she was trying to enter through the glass of our office window!
February, 2009: We are working with our friends in Nashville, TN to provide their organization which is called Eagle's Landing with designs for 6 or 7 log cabins, a log pavilion, and a log lodge. This will be a children's summer camp located in Joelton, Tennessee, only 10 miles outside of Nashville. You can view or support this great ministry by visiting their website at www.provisioninternational.com
January 1, 2009: This year, Meadowlark Log Homes will become an officially certified green building company, and we will announce it here when it is finalized. We have always been a steward of the earth's resources by utilizing trees in need of thinning or harvesting areas of trees that have already died, instead of allowing the trees to be burned in fires, we harvest them and prevent the waste and pollution to enter the atmosphere. Log homes and related products are really one of the greatest examples of green construction.
For those unfamiliar with the term "green construction", it refers to practices in the construction process that are earth friendly, use methods to reduce waste, produce a finished product of lower energy consumption, and reduce the long term carbon footprint not only during construction, but through the life of the home.
December 31, 2008: 2008 was a good year for Meadowlark Log Homes. A total of 33 log homes, cabins, and pavilions were produced. Our craftsmen stayed busy all year, and produced a steady stream of handmade log homes and cabins.
September, 2008 Estes Park, Colorado: Meadowlark Log Homes was awarded the contract for the log structure repair at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. You can see our work when you go to the visitor's Center at the end of the paved road. At over 12,000 feet, that parking lot is the world's highest paved road.
The logwork is located on top of the shingle roof, and is used as a snowbreak to prevent the heavy snow from sliding down and causing damage.
August, 2008, Log Pavilion: A large log pavilion was erected for the City of Libby, Montana, along the banks of the Kootenai River. This structure is the first to be installed in Libby's new Riverfront Park, and will be a place for families to gather, and enjoy the river. The pavilion can be seen by going to our gallery at Amish Timber Frames on the main page.
July, 2008: Three Kalispell model cabins were pre assembled, sent to Dell, Montana, and erected at the Dell Mercantile for rental cabins. They can be seen when you travel along Interstate 15 south of Butte, Montana. An easy exit allows you to stop in and visit our friends at the Mercantile. We will be putting up a photo gallery and story about the cabins and the Mercantile, so be sure to visit our website from time to time. You will find them under the Kalispell floor plan section under More Info.
May 31, 2008. Three log cabins were sold at our Amish School Auction.
THE MEADOWLARK STORY, A Reverse Timeline:
Here is where we will continue to bring you history of where we have come from, which leads to the developement of Meadowlark Log Homes and the Amish community which is in Libby, Montana today.
We will update this and add to it from time to time. Thanks for visiting our site. We welcome your questions and input on how we can make this the best log home website in the world, where you enjoy coming back again and again.
2003: Meadowlark is incorporated: We incorporated as Meadowlark Log Homes, Inc, in 2003. The old name, Mountain Meadow Log Homes, began to feel outdated, and the new name "Meadowlark" reflected our love for the meadowlark which sings in our fields next to our facility. He sings his song of worship in good times and bad. The black crescent on the meadowlark's chest is a symbol of growth, goodwill, and expansion. This is the literal definition of the crescent.
1992, The move to Libby: We sold Kootenai Log Homes to our good employees, and we moved to Libby, Montana, 65 miles south of our old home. We started a new Amish community there, ten miles south of Libby in a beautiful setting next to the Cabinet Mountains. We set up a new log home facility and called the name of the new operation Mountain Meadow Log Homes. We continued with our same style of flat on flat log homes, finding a continual, ready market throughout the country. Several years later, Kootenai Log Homes was sold and the company moved to Colorado, where they are located today.
1980, We form our company: We chose the name Kootenai Log Homes for our new company, which reflected the area we lived in. The name comes from the Kootenai Indians which used to call this area their home. West Kootenai derives its name because of its location on the west of the Kootenai River and Lake Koocanusa.
1979, Tongue and Groove Log Home: We built our first log home that was constructed using 8"x 8" machined, tongue and groove logs. Since that time, we have built more log homes using this type of log, but about 98% of our customers prefer the handmade style, handpeeled.
1978, Our first log home sale: We produced our first log home for another customer. We ran a lumber mill at the time, so our log home company was not formed yet, and had no name.
1976 Our first log cabin: The two Miller boys, Ervin and Lloyd, built our first log cabin. It is still standing along the creek today, and is also the only log home we ever built that we left the bark on the logs!
October, 1975, The move out west: Our parents, Ora and Orpha Miller, moved their family of seven children from LaGrange, Indiana, to the new Amish community near Rexford, Montana, to a place called West Kootenai.
1730: Around this time, our forefather, an Amishman, Joseph Miller came to the United States along with other Amish who had begun migrating to Pennsylvania.
1600s, Alsace, Germany: During the 1600s many Anabaptists fled Switzerland to an area called Alsace in west central Germany. Here they settled and prospered with somewhat less persecution for the most part. They attempted to live their simple faith desiring to be left alone. Many of the homes and barns they built in this region are still in use today. The construction method was timber frame, built to last for centuries and so these can still be seen today, although there are many structures with the exact origin no longer known, since periodic purgings of the land from the pesky Anabaptists would take place and they would flee somewhere else hoping to be safe.
1693, The Amish Split : Unfortunately, people of faith even under such hard times, bickered and disagreed among themselves. In 1693 a young Mennonite bishop named Jakob Amman disagreed with some trends among the Mennonites, fearing they were slipping into worldly ways. In the disagreement that came forth, a seperation ended up happening and is referred to as the Amish division of 1699. Focus was placed on simplicity and contentment rather than worldly gain and prestige.
1550, Mennonites: A movement became known as the Mennonites during the mid 1500s, being Anabptists, living in regions of Switzerland, Germany, and Holland. Many were killed for ther faith, especially leaders of the church since they refused to bow to the powers trying to control them.
1526, Persecution: The masses began baptizing upon confession of faith, and the Reformers called them Anabaptists (re- baptizers). Great persecution followed all who decided to follow Christ in this way. Eventually, the Anabaptists were banned from Switzerland and many fled to Germany. This was not any better, since the Anabaptist movement was growing there as well, and Martin Luther, the great Reformer of that nation, was also calling for death and banishment for all who allowed themselves to be re baptized.
1520,The Anabaptist Beginnings: The story of the Amish begins hundreds of years ago in the cities and farms of Switzerland. During the early Reformation around 1520, in Zurich, Switzerland, Ulrich Zwingli launched the historic reforming of the church of the day, beginning in the Grosmunster Cathedral where he was a main leader of the Catholic Church in that city. His breakthrough revelations included the idea of salvation by faith, rather than by good works which we have done.
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