The setting sun highlights architectural details such as cedar shingles, a standing-seam metal roof and the fieldstone chimney. Photo by Trent Bell

A heavy-timbered portico shelters the lodge’s main entrance, which features a new door with an eye-shaped window that incorporates a section of an inosculated tree branch. Photo by Trent Bell

Energy-efficient lights illuminate a sign salvaged from the old lodge. Photo by Trent Bell

Natural light seeps through an opening in the stone chimney. Photo by Trent Bell

The great room features a massive fireplace under an 11-foot-long granite lintel. With tables that fold and roll, lodge crew will find it much easier to convert the space into a dance floor. Photo by Trent Bell

A hidden interior stone staircase winds up and through the 20-by-20-foot stone chimney structure. Photo by Trent Bell

The giant branching white pine dubbed “Slingshot” by timber framers rises from a 22-ton granite boulder through the first-floor framing. Photo by Trent Bell

A second-floor walkway traverses Slingshot. Photo by Trent Bell

A screened porch offers respite in the lodge’s northwest corner. Photo by Trent Bell

Slingshot in all its glory Photo by Trent Bell