Rooms
Front Entry
The remarkable front entry is highlighted by a two-story wall of raised paneling. The winding
staircase, which turns three times, splits at the second landing to access the two largest
bedrooms. The ornately turned balustrades are positioned three to a tread. The balustrades
continue along the second floor landing. There is a small hanging closet located under the
stairway.
On the first floor the front hall leads to a well-proportioned living room measuring 16 by 16
feet. It features a full wall of raised panels featuring fluted pilasters flanking a working
fireplace. The floor has most of the original wide pine boards. In the opposite front corner
is a built-in corner cupboard with a domed ceiling, three scalloped shelves, and fluted
pilasters similar to the fireplace surround. The lower door was missing but replaced with a
likely replica. Elaborate crown molding surrounds the room, and continues along both sides
of the summer beam down the center of the ceiling. The plaster walls are believed to be
original.
Family/Dining Room - Photo
This 12 by 19 foot room with an eight-foot wide fireplace was the former kitchen. It is the
most extensively renovated room. Due to its heavy use in past as utilitarian room, the only
original remaining features are the powder cabinet door in the fireplace wall and the beehive
oven. The fireplace was rebuilt in the 1980s, and the paneling surround replicated. The
chimney was lined by flu tile at the same time. A Vermont Castings Vigilant woodstove is
installed in the working fireplace.
Den/Office
The former "borning" room has four walls of hand-planed beveled paneling varying in widths
from 12 to 18 inches. The ceiling is exposed beams, which were reinforced by steel plates.
A four-foot wide built-in bookcase adds to its modern day function as a den or office. The
two panel door has unique decorative hinges and thumb latch. The wide-pine board floor was
previously covered by manufactured board and has not yet been exposed. For unknown reasons,
the floor was raised at some time before the house move, leaving the room with a low ceiling
height of approximately 75 inches. The floor is now covered by carpeting.
An Andersen box bay window is the highlight of the kitchen at the back of the house in the
reconstructed ell. The six-foot wide window provides great light to the eating area of the
11 by 16 foot room, and a wonderful view of a large level area of the yard on the east side
of the house. The window's two-foot depth offers a wonderful opportunity for indoor gardeners.
The galley kitchen is separated from the eating area by a five-foot long island with sink.
The custom cabinets and wide floor boards were milled from pine trees felled off North Street
to clear for the town's new playing fields at Klock Park in the 1970s. The rear wall of
raised paneling and crown molding was reconstructed from old paneling to match an old raised
panel door, which was found unused in the house before its move and installed between the
kitchen and back entry hall. The paneling surrounds a hearth and now unused fireplace flu,
which served a woodstove in the 1970s and 1980s. Appliances include an electric range,
refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave.
Back Entry Hall
The back hall features wide pine board floors and a large closet, both also made from Klock
Park pines. The exterior entry door is a new wood-textured fiberglass door with two upper lites.
Half Bath
The half bath is conveniently located on the first floor off the back hall in the reconstructed ell.
Back Staircase
The renovated back staircase leads to the rear of second floor. It begins between the
family/dining room and the den/office and lands in the upstairs hall central to the entrances to
the second and third bedrooms, as well as the reconstructed ell that includes a dressing room,
full bath and laundry room and storage area, which is partially under the eaves.
Rear Upstairs Hall
Both walls are wide beveled panels with visible hand planing marks. The door to the second
bedroom is a replica as the doorways to the ell, bathroom and bedroom were moved at different
times. The door to the walk-up attic is a single board 27 inches in width, with what appears
to be the original heart and cusp hardware.
A full wall of raised paneling surrounds a working, but unused, fireplace in the large master
bedroom at the front of the second floor. Heavy crown molding, similar to the living room
below, tops all four walls and the central summer beam. The south-facing room measures
approximately 16 by 16 feet with three original windows. A small closet was originally filled
with shelves and is now equipped with a hanging rod. The closet and front hall doors are
incorporated into the wall of paneling. The floor is wide pine ship-lapped boards that also
appear to be original.
Second Bedroom - Photo
This 12 by 16 foot room is located above the family/dining room. It has a small section of
wood paneling surrounding a non-functioning fireplace in need of reconstruction. The hearth
was covered at some time before the house move. The paneled section includes a raised panel
door. It leads to the front hall and serves as a closet. The hall closet walls and ceiling
were paneled in unpainted novelty boards similar to beadboard sometime prior to 1970s. The
wood paneling around the fireplace appears to be original, but two of three gunstock corner
posts have been covered and the plaster walls were replaced with plaster board when the room
was renovated in 1982. The wide pine floors were covered with narrow pine boards at some
time prior to the house move.
Third Bedroom - Photo
Two walls of wide beveled boards, similar to the borning room below, were discovered under
old sheet rock in this 9 by 12 foot room. The other two plaster walls were replaced with
plaster board. The floor is wide pine boards that make up the ceiling for the room below.
There is no closet.
Dressing Room - Photo
Located in the rear ell outside the full bathroom, this 8 by 8 foot room, with large hanging
closet, linen closet and window, is now used as a dressing room. Its location adjacent to
the bathroom and laundry room offers possibilities for additional or expanded bathroom
facilities.
Full Bath - Photo
The full bath in the second floor of the ell has a shower in the footed tub found in the
house before the move. The floor to ceiling shelves at the foot of the tub offer lots of
storage room.
Laundry Room
Located at the rear of the ell, there is an area about five-feet deep and 16 feet wide with
adequate headroom for the washer and dryer and laundry functions. An additional storage
area of approximately 4 by 16 feet is located under the eaves behind the washer and dryer.
Attic
The walk-up unfinished attic offers options of unheated storage or possible future expansion
with full head height. The central chimney was rebuilt and lined with flu tile from the
attic floor to the top in the 1980s. The roof and attic structure were removed to the attic
floor when the house was moved, and rebuilt when placed on its new foundation.
Cellar
The full cellar is accessible by both an interior stairway and an exterior walk-out door at
the rear of the house. The foundation is poured concrete to ground level, and then is built
above ground with the original fieldstone foundation transported from its location on South
Main Street. The floor is concrete throughout. The original brick archway in the chimney
base was reconstructed after the house move. A small section of the cellar has been partially
finished with insulation and sheet rock, but needs auxiliary heating. The utilities for the
relocated house were all placed in the ell cellar. There is 100 amp electric service, town
water, and an oil-fired boiler with a side-arm hot water heater installed in the early 1990s.
