Founded and built in 1946, the Camp Tecumseh Lodge for Boys was an all-boys camp consisting of Recreation Halls, cabins, Mess Halls, activity grounds, and lake access all aimed at honing the skills and building the character of boys across the Midwest and broader United States. The camp was constructed and operated by Faye (Ritman)Dorfman, who helped run much of the cooking and medical enterprises and William Dorfman, originally a building engineer held develop and supervise campers activities. The museum's main building is now the former Recreation Hall, it's sister building- the Mess Hall, is now the large dinning room at Eagle Water's Resort.

As for the actual architectural style of the building features the truss beams used a relatively innovative construction method at the time called “glu-lam,” a process that glued and laminated several pieces of dimensional lumber together, forming one large and strong structural member. At the time of this building’s construction “glu-lam” beams were not only technologically significant, but common place across the Mid-West and Northern Wisconsin.

The process came to Wisconsin in 1934, with Max Hanisch Sr. who came to Peshtigo, Wisc. to start a manufacturing center for laminated products. Among his first projects, Hanisch helped construct the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. The lab at Madison has glu-lam beams that are of the same architectural style and manufacturing process to those used in Tecumseh Lodge.