The Buildings at Buncom

 

   There are three buildings remaining at Buncom -- the Post Office, the Bunkhouse and the Cookhouse. The Post Office building is the youngest, constructed about 1910.  It also doubled as a General Store. 

   The roofs on all three buildings were replaced by the Buncom Historical Society in the 1990s, and significant work was done on support beams inside.  New footings were placed underneath to stabilize them.

   In 2001, thanks to the generosity of two Society members, the floor of the Cookhouse was replaced with a floor of locally milled wood.  And thanks to another contribution, windows were added as the building had them originally.  It's now nicknamed the "Buncom Dance Hall."

   In 2002, the overhang on the Cookhouse was replaced, and the porch that had graced the Post Office until it collapsed about 40 years earlier was restored.

 

                

                   Post Office                                                                            Bunkhouse

 

                            Cookhouse