Their cabin remains at the camp to this day, built of cedar logs hand-flattened on two sides, joined with half-dove-tailed notches, chinked with moss, with a small cellar beneath a trapdoor in the floor.

In the 1920s or 1930s Frank Childs built a cabin there and fished in the winter with a man named Black Pete.

They hung gill nets on lines and poles under the ice and after a day or two, collected a catch of whitefish and lake trout.

They constructed a 14 by 18 foot log bunkhouse in a Scandinavian style, which remains, and a twine shed for storing fishing nets.

That they were not cleaned up and redeveloped like the valuable land around most docks is what makes Manitou Camp unique in the area.