The distinctive chickee hut — palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame — was born of necessity, not art. Seminoles used to live in a type of log cabin.

The distinctive chickee hut — palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame — was born of ... DEP records show Spencer wrote a check for $10,000 to chickee hut builder William Johns of ...

'Chickee' hut gets approval. SHELBY WEBB. When it comes to tiki-type huts, the hands that build them can make the difference between a city violation and a no-hassle construction job.

Chickee shelters — thatched roofs with open sides and no floors — were developed by the Seminoles in the 1800s. The tribe had been living in log cabins, but during the Seminole wars they were ...

Chickee cross beams measure about 16 inches in diameter and the chickee’s poles, or legs, are about 10 inches across. The cypress is untreated but will last “indefinitely,” Osceola said.

It was plain that something was chewing up the chickee, a traditional open log-frame structure built by Florida’s native Miccosukee and Seminole tribes. But what?

The Seminoles recently built a chickee hut behind the Bonita Springs Historical Society’s building on Old 41. The structure will be used for workshops and lectures, but it is also forging this ...

Leaders of South Florida Free Beaches and Florida Lifestyle Naturists agree the chickee huts at Haulover Beach attract crime. But they differ on how to fix the problem.

The chickee hut is in addition to about $560,000 in improvements made this year at the stadium. There’s more shade, spiffed up skyboxes, new sod and infield dirt and improved concession stands.

Early on Thanksgiving morning, little Jean Paul Luciano trembled, cried and buried his face in his mother’s arms as flames engulfed the chickee hut outside his bedroom window, then spread to the ...

If chickee huts (open-walled, palm-roofed shelters) are available, that may be all you need. Or, maybe just a mosquito-net shelter to put inside the chickee hut.

CLERMONT — It took 13 members of the Seminole tribe six days to bring a little bit of authentic American Indian culture to downtown Clermont. A huge, L-shaped chickee hut, complete with hand ...