 Estimated to date from the 1820s to 1830s, the log house had been sided with clapboards and used as a residence.It was purchased at an auction for $1,000 by Fagan, who donated it to the university in honor of his wife Ann Ebbert Fagan, who graduated from the university's School of Arts and Sciences in 1962.The cabin was disassembled and transported to Pittsburgh where its reconstruction was begun on September 10, 1986.