Sugar Shack or Love Shack? 🤔

[@bobkoroua]

That looks like a chapel to me. It doesn't look like it was made as a sugar shack. The window has that look to it of more effort than just a shack would call for. And the raised structure on the roof ?

[@soloman4547]

It does look that way doesn't it?, but as far as I know it was used for processing maple sap. The owners refer to it as the sugar shack, and said that's what it was used for long ago. The raised part as far as I know is ornamental, but I will explore it more in a few days when I go there to mow again. It's possible it was used for dual purpose for work and chapel, such as many schools were in small chapels long ago.

[@bobkoroua]

@@soloman4547 Yes, it is possible that the demographics of the area included a lot of manual labourers and the person or a group of different persons they worked for built it . I live not far from the oldest church in my part of the north island of New Zealand. There are sketches of it when it was built that look very much like that building . One of the farms I worked on as a kid had staff quarters that was the family chapel in the late 1800's. They called it "the bachelors bunk" It had a large window on the end away from the door and no other original windows.