It's hard to differentiate the reconstructed buildings in the museum from the rest of Winthrop, such is the town's eerie authenticity. However, the museum does retain one original construction: a log cabin known as 'the Castle,' built by Winthrop founder Guy Waring in 1896 as a present to his wife.


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