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Hastings Cabin
A
Stanford Professor, who was a friend of the Hastings family, built
the Hastings Cabin for his family. Eventually his sons moved away,
and Russell and Francis Hastings started using the cabin for summer
visits to the Reservation. Their visits continued until the 1960's.
The Hastings Cabin features a sleeping porch with glass windows
in wooden frames that lift up with a series of pulleys and ropes
to convert a winterized porch to a summer screen porch. Another
small bedroom is inside, along with a living room, kitchen and bathroom.
It sleeps 4; one double bed and two twin beds. Another person can
sleep on the couch. Heat can be had from the fireplace, or from
a propane wall furnace. The interior rooms are winterized, and the
plumbing and wiring were brought up to code in a recent renovation.
Various photos follow: |
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| Pair of photos of Hastings Cabin in 1935 (left) and in 2001 (right).
Note the lack of change in the hillside vegetation. Low vegetation
in 2001 is due to mowing the otherwise tall grasses 9 (still abundant)
for fire protection. The black locust (Robinia spp.) have grown. |








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