[2] Fish House: The fish house is a one-story gable roof building constructed half of horizontal logs with saddle notching, and half of frame construction with vertical flushboarding.

It is a one-story, one room, frame shiplapped structure built on a log foundation with a gable roof.

It is a one-story building constructed of horizontal logs with saddle notching, and chinked with moss and cloth.

It is a frame, horizontal flushboarded building with a shallow-pitched gabled roof and log foundation.

[3] In the 1880s, the fishing industry around Isle Royale was booming due to the relative ease of shipping goods via refrigerated rail cars.

The buildings were constructed using easily available local materials and built using strictly functional designs.

[3] The fishery was in fact named for Pete Edisen, one of the last commercial fishermen on Isle Royale.