A log cabin built in 1918 and tucked in the middle of a residential Greenlawn neighborhood — rediscovered, in a sense, by an aunt out on a walk amid the pandemic — has been designated as a local historic landmark.

Grace Log Cabin sits at the edge of a hill overlooking Northport Harbor in the Edwin and Gertrude Grace Nature Preserve off Arbutus Road. The 23.2-acre preserve is mostly surrounded by privately owned homes.

Huntington Town Historian Robert Hughes said the cabin has historic relevance, including being part of an estate dating to around 1914 with grounds designed by the same architect who planned out Heckscher Park in Huntington.

“The local designation is really going to protect it,” Hughes said, adding that the cabin speaks to the town’s estate period. “Not the big mansions

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