Neal Rubin The Detroit News Published 6:26 AM EDT Mar 11, 2019 Detroit — Preservationists were giddy when they found a rare log cabin just north of Hamtramck that might have been built before the Civil War. Then the Detroit Land Bank Authority demolished it. The historian who hoped to move the cabin to the park in front of Hamtramck's City Hall is furious. The Wayne State archaeologist who examined it is suspicious. The land bank is resolute. As for the cabin, it's in a landfill in Northville. "We did all this work," says Greg Kowalski, chairman of the Hamtramck Historical Museum. "They just went ahead and demolished it right out from under our noses." "The whole street is filled with houses slated for removal, and they chose this one first," says associate professor Krysta Ryzewski, who received the original tip about the cabin late last year. "Something's fishy with that." "It’s not that we would ever want to take down a historic structure," says land bank … [Read more...] about Historic log cabin found in Detroit, then demolished