Quote from kitty3 on 07/25/08 at 10:41pm:

 
That book is in the Hoover library also, I think it may also be in the library at Bluff Park Methodists.  
 
I also got some info on the house from my mom who lives off Tyler. She tells me that the house was moved here from another state. It was very obvious because the architecture was so different. When they moved to the area she remembered that it had a yard full of tulips and the owners had a butler that would wave to people that passed by. When the owner died the house just kind of sat there. She did not remember it ever being for-sale so it may have gone into trust to someone or left to another family member.. my dad recalls going to an estate sale at the house when it was being cleaned out.

It's not the oldest house in Hoover but it is the oldest 2 story cabin in Hoover... my father went up to the house the other day and walked around and all the doors are numbered so maybe they are going to disassemble the house and move it... why else would they number the doors?

Here's the picture that BluffParkWriter took:
 

There is a no trespassing sign out by the road now, so be careful if anyone goes to look at it.

Here's an update on this house:
 
My father when by the house last week and there were two men on the front porch of the house so he asked if they knew who owned the property now.  One man said that he was the owner and the other man was working for him bulldozing the land.  Dad asked him what he was going to do with the log cabin and he said that he didn't know yet, but he was paying a company who specializes in removal of cabins to disassemble it and put it in storage until he figures out what to do.  Dad told him that he was interested because of the fact that our ancestor had built it (Learn something new every day... I guess I should listen to my Dad more often because I didn't know that I had ties to that house!).  The man said that he was interested in any history on the house so my dad showed him some historical stuff he had showing that the man who had built it was an Ingalls (who is in my lineage somehow).  The man who was running the bulldozer turned out to be an Ingalls too, with ties to Walker/Winston County (where these Ingalls came from) and was amazed to hear that he might be tearing down a house built by one of his ancestors too.  
 
So, as sad as it is to see the home go, at least its being saved, sort of...

Looking at it go down while driving by, I think that they did want to save it.  They were very carefully removing the first part of the roof.  You are probably correct about too much damage.  They now seem to be just taking it down.

That developer has to be hurting. They were trying to get Homewood to approve that development 4 years ago. The neighbors were against it because of the increased traffic flow. I'm betting whoever the developer is paid a good bit of money for the property.