The Nation Touring Redwood Log House Motorhome Is For Sale

One of the most unique motorhomes you've ever seen is up for sale, and it's one that, chances are, you've seen in person a time or two.

The Redwood Log House Motorhome

In 1939, a lumberjack working for Georgia-Pacific in Northwestern California named James Allen, took a healthy slice of a 1900-year-old redwood tree and turned it into a three-room home.

It took Allen four months to hollow out the tree with hand tools, and an additional 18 months to convert the log into a home. The tree it came from was gigantic - measured at 267 feet high, with a 14-foot wide stump.

A year into living in the home, Allen decided to take it mobile, strapping it to a trailer and hitting the road, touring the country and exhibiting the home everywhere he went for over 70 years.

Inside The Home

The log house has three rooms - a bedroom, kitchen, and living room. While there isn't plumbing, there is electricity. The kitchen doesn't have a functioning sink, but it does have a hot plate, a two-seat dinette and a refrigerator. All of the cabinets are hand-varnished redwood.

In the 1950s, Allen's son James Jr. inherited and took over the touring of the log house, which was when he met his wife on a trip.

In 1985, the log house was inherited by the next generation, James' granddaughter Jamie, when she was 23-years-old.

Now For Sale

Over the years, the home has toured the country, making appearances at carnivals, fairs and special events in all 48 contiguous states, but now fuel prices have taken a toll.

At only four miles to the gallon, the vintage Mack Truck that hauls the home is expensive to operate.

It's the only one we'll see made of a redwood tree, because in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Redwood National Park Act, stopping the harvest of redwood trees.

The truck is listed on eBay, which you can see here, at a buy it now price of $11.5 Million.

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