The historical cabin can be factually described as a Civil War era one-and-a-half story single-pen log home, constructed of high quality native Texas cedar wood, and built by a person or persons with a high skill-level techniques common with those of German or Bavarian heritage. In the humorous words of a professional civil war restoration historian, the cabin is an artifact representative of 1860's technology translated with a Texas drawl, Germanic practicality, and a Yankee skill-set, which clearly represents living in a rustic or rural environment under the simplest living conditions of the era. The construction corresponds to that required of a post-Civil War Homestead Act structure. Former area resident Gwen Wunneberger and her husband purchased the cabin in the mid-1950s and lived in it for many years. The City of Lakeway purchased the cabin in 2011, and moved it from the area it previously resided near High 5 in the Oaks Shopping Center to its current location next to City Hall. Several historical pieces and a grave marker of the original occupant sits on the land surrounding the cabin.