Believed to be one of the oldest log cabins in the US, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

[1] The Hyde Log Cabin stands on the east side of US Route 2 north of Grand Isle center and just north of the Grand Isle Elementary School, sharing a lot with a small wood-frame 1814 schoolhouse.

The cabin is a modest single-story structure, fashioned out of peeled cedar logs measuring between 14 and 18 inches in diameter.

The building footprint is 20 by 25 feet (6.1 m × 7.6 m), and it is covered with a gabled roof.

[2] The cabin was built in 1783 by Jedediah Hyde, Jr., who surveyed the Grand Isle Area for Ira and Ethan Allen, who had acquired large tracts of land in the region.