Float home at the Bayview Marina in 1970.

ID: 4458 ~ Creator: Many of the float homes have a boat house on the rear of the home to park their boats. The water levels do not change much through the year allowing the owners to use their boats year round. Courtesy of Mary Garrison.
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Some of the Bayview Float Homes in 1970. The homes started as fishing shacks and were later remodeled to one story cabins on cedar logs in a boat slip. Courtesy of the Museum of North Idaho

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By Mary Garrison
Float Homes of Bayview The “Floating Village” at Bayview, Idaho has been a unique community for over 100 years. There are over 200 of the historical floating homes in Idaho with about 100 of them being in one central location of Scenic Bay on…