In 1904, Joseph E. Barnett (1850-1922) and his wife Wealthy Anne Brown Barnett (1853-1935), purchased a quarter-section of land on the south bank of the Cimarron River near the Ziegler Post Office about seven miles southeast of Waynoka. There they built the three-room cedar log house. Mrs. Barnett continued to live there after Joseph’s death in 1922, then moved in 1935 she moved to Waynoka.

Melburn and Wilma Hutchison donated the log house to the Waynoka Historical Society in their son, Jeryl Hutchison’s. Chesapeake Energy Corp. provided men and equipment for the dismantling and moving of the logs to Bixler Corner at Waynoka Station. The house was restored by Bill Buckley, Ray Nutter and others.