March 1, 2005: Headlines: Housing: Corporate Report Wisconsin: Simplify, simplify, simplify. That's the motto Richard Freihoefer applied 15 years ago (along with Peace Corps carpentry skills and the guidance of 1960s-era books) when he built Hidden Hollow Cabin on 40 acres outside Richland Center
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March 1, 2005: Headlines: Housing: Corporate Report Wisconsin: Simplify, simplify, simplify. That's the motto Richard Freihoefer applied 15 years ago (along with Peace Corps carpentry skills and the guidance of 1960s-era books) when he built Hidden Hollow Cabin on 40 acres outside Richland Center
Simplify, simplify, simplify. That's the motto Richard Freihoefer applied 15 years ago (along with Peace Corps carpentry skills and the guidance of 1960s-era books) when he built Hidden Hollow Cabin on 40 acres outside Richland Center
Simplify, simplify, simplify. That's the motto Richard Freihoefer applied 15 years ago (along with Peace Corps carpentry skills and the guidance of 1960s-era books) when he built Hidden Hollow Cabin on 40 acres outside Richland Center
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Mar 1, 2005
Corporate Report Wisconsin
[Excerpt]
A COMMUNlTY CABlN IN THE WOODS
BY KIRK SMOCK
Simplify, simplify, simplify. That's the motto Richard Freihoefer applied 15 years ago (along with Peace Corps carpentry skills and the guidance of 1960s-era books) when he built Hidden Hollow Cabin on 40 acres outside Richland Center.
Freihoefer loved the beauty of Wisconsin's Driftless Area, its rolling hills, marvelous rock outcroppings, and dense woods of maple, oak, and birch. He also loved the community spirit that lingered from the days of homesteading hippies, and the like-minded local Amish population.
In keeping with his motto, Freihoefer decided to forgo electricity and running water. "It's part of the allure," he explains. "With candles and kerosene lanterns you remember there was life before technology."
The design is straightforward, spacious, and open. The main floor has a kitchen (the sink drains into buckets and the stove runs on propane), a composting toilet, a large dining room table, and several secondhand couches and chairs grouped around a wood-burning stove. The high ceiling gives way to an upstairs loft divided into three bedrooms. The cabin's largest wall is a patchwork of windows as important for solar gain as for the view-and three outside porches serve as perfect bird-watching posts.
Though Freihoefer lived at Hidden Hollow full time for six months after it was built, he now lives in Milwaukee, where he works as a corrections officer. He visits his old home when he can, and rents it out when he's not there\; realizing that not everybody can afford a second home, he seeks "to open it to as many people as possible." He also believes that by sharing his cabin, he's helping to preserve "one of Wisconsin's great, undiscovered areas."
Freihoefer's guests share in their own ways. Some plant Thai peppers or sunflowers; others leave behind books on paranormal occurrences, animal skins, intricate wood carvings, or just a glowing message in the guest book. Freihoefer loves watching the cabin evolve, saying his only regret is that "I don't get to meet all the people who visit."
For information on renting Hidden Hollow, call (414) 430-3505 or visit http://www.geo cities.com/richlandcabin/.
"With candles and kerosene lanterns," says Freihoefer, "you remember there was life before technology."
Madison-based freelancer Kirk Smock's second home is a tent, complete with a nylon awning for his backpack.
Cedar siding and rough-cut teak-stained cedar trim (above) help this house blend into the forest along the sun bowl's northern slope; the modern kitchen (right) features elbow-height counters and access to the deck.
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