Alaska is a game hunter's paradise.  Since the late nineteenth century, big game hunters have come to Alaska seeking trophies.  Andrew Berg was considered to be "the best hunter on the Kenai Peninsula."  Berg began his career in the 1890's as moose proliferated on the Kenai Peninsula.  In 1902, Berg built this log cabin on the north shore of the eastern end of Tustumena Lake.  He was a master builder who ultimately built 11 cabins on the Kenai Peninsula.  For the next quarter century, Berg led hunting parties for moose and bear from the cabin.  Minimally changed, the Andrew Berg Cabin is a typical representative of a log cabin built on the Kenai Peninsula by those who choose to live alone in a largely unsettled area during the early twentieth century.  Berg used the cabin until his death in 1939. 

In 1908, game laws called for wardens, bag limits, and licensed guides.  Andrew Berg was among the first group of guides licensed on August 5, 1909.  He served as a game warden for the Kenai Peninsula from July 15, 1920 until October 27, 1921.  From 1924 until 1936 he worked for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (U. S. Biological Survey) during summers as a stream guard and as a special warden protecting seal and salmon in the Cook Inlet area. His duties also included conducting salmon stream surveys in the Tustumena Lake drainage.

Andrew Berg quit guiding around 1929.  With the beginning of the Great Depression, there were fewer big game hunting trips to Alaska.  At the same time prices paid for furs dropped, and trapping on the Kenai Peninsula declined.  In late February 1939, friends found Berg, who had suffered from heart and kidney problems for ten years, bedridden at one of his cabins.  He was flown to a hospital in Anchorage where died on March 1, 1939, at the age of 71.

The Andrew Berg Home Cabin was placed on the National Register of Historical Places on April 21, 2000.

NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION: The Home cabin is a one-story log cabin consisting of a single rectangular room and an arctic entry.  The cabin is located within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on the shores of Tustumena Lake.  The Home cabin condition is classified as standing "good" with very little alteration since its construction.

The Home cabin is built of spruce logs cut in the area by ax and crosscut saw. The cabin is located approximately 69 feet from the shore of Tustumena Lake.  The foundation of the cabin consists of sill logs placed directly on the ground without a prepared foundation.  The outside dimensions of the single room cabin are 17 feet wide by 17 feet long.  An arctic entry is located on the facade (west) elevation and the outside dimensions of the arctic entry are 17 feet wide by 10 feet long.  The one sided spruce logs have been peeled of all bark.  The log diameters average 9 inches at the butt end and 7 inches at the tip.  The cabin logs are scribe-fit (Scandinavian, or chinkless) and chinked with native moss and split chinking.  Wooden pegs 1 ¼ inch diameter are used to pin the logs near door and window openings.  The logs are interlocked with a full dovetail notch.  The facade and east elevations have 11 courses of logs and the north and south elevation have 10 courses of logs, all set horizontally. The arctic entry is framed in with rough-cut lumber.