Here are some photos of us taking apart the elements of the cottage we wanted to save. I tried to sell or give away as much as I could so that material was re-used and did not go to the landfill. In the end only 2 truckloads went to the landfill but that is another story. I was able to sell the metal roof for $100 including its removal. I thought I had someone to take the stairs but they found they were too hard to remove and only took one section.
I have often wondered how the interior beadboard walls were supported. The 2x4 studs were put in when Jane had the cottage rewired and the electrician needed something to support the light switches and outlets. It turns out that each one of the 3" beadboard boards was nailed into the floor with a 2 1/2" finishing nail at an angle on the bottom and at the top into a horizontal brace. Hell to get out all those nails! I saved a lot of the beadboard and Carin and Austin took more to put as decor in the house they bought in Milwaukee in July.
The shutters were sold to an antique/salvage store in Wisconsin Rapids and the windows were given to a salvage/reclaim store in Green Bay. Probably cost me more in gas to get them there than it would have cost to put them in the landfill! But at least they got another use. I kept all the interior doors as well as the trim around the shelf and kitchen door where all the visitors had written/carved their names. I was unable to save the exterior doors. I had left them on the cottage to keep the animals out but with the metal roof gone, the cottage got VERY wet inside. This caused the doors to swell and basically ruined them.
Todd Colenso making 2nd cut to salvage paneling between the 2 NW bedrooms.
Half done
And BOOM it all falls down!
Newspaper insulation in wall
Newspaper from August 1934
Found a reclaim/salvage store in Green Bay to take windows
They will use windows in their workshops - use as picture frames or paint on the glass or decor 
Left from Scott Johnston's teen dream summer at the Lake