Federal Style

The building bulges out at the edges as a result of erosion.

The windows are constructed out of a wood frame, so there are no pegs, unlike the windows on the stone side.

The cornice at the top directs water away from the building.

Picture by Brooke Bobovnyik

The entrance room, seen in picture 1, would have originally been divided into two rooms. Seen in the beam in picture 2, there are pockets in the beam where the wall would have been.

Picture 1 shows the huge beam that sets in on the chimney bases at each end of the house. Picture 2 shows a large patch in the basement wall with a supporting beam. The beam has begun to sag, causing a portion of the floor in the upstairs entry to dip.

In this house, there's a square flue that runs straight up from the first floor with no damper on both ends.

The upstairs has been completely redone. This patch shows where the stairs would have originally been.

The roof contains modern pine boards with some boards from the original roof. Before the slate roof, the house originally had a wooden roof. The beams are half-lap with a wooden pin to hold them in place.

Picture by Brooke Bobovnyik

One of the first rooms of the house - the kitchen. Picture 3 shows the original outside door.

This room became the bedroom following the first extension of the house. The stencils in the room were copied from a house on Route 7 in Vernon.

One of the front addition rooms. The original wallpaper had been painted over. The two front rooms contain corner posts.

When the early roof on the back of the house dropped flatly, there was no room for a staircase facing this direction here. It faced the opposite direction. This stair case dates back to between the 1860s and 1870s.

This seam on the floor shows where the front wall of the 1807 house would have been.

The rooms on the second floor reflect various periods.

One of the rooms in the back house.

The original kitchen pantry stone sink top, which weighs about 500 pounds.

This room would have been the kitchen for the tavern. The fireplace in the room was made smaller from the original.

The visitors would have come in this room off the stage. The fireplace in this room has also been shrunken down.

This would have been the parlor room. There was once a toilet in this room enclosed with cardboard walls and a cardboard door.

The paint color in this bedroom is a reproduction of the original color. While the room now contains a fireplace, it did not originally. In the past, the room was rented for special occasions, and it was also a meeting room for the masons.

This room was where the tavern keeper would have lived. The stone color of this room represents the Greek Revival style. The doors in this room are the only doors that contain latches.

The current kitchen in the house.

The large wood beams in this room were taken from the top part of a frame from an 1820 side hull house that was disassembled.

This was the house of George Rapp's adopted son, Frederick.

The stairs would have originally been positioned against the right wall facing the back, rose up, then turn to the left.

The design of the fireplace mantle and the window cornice in the parlor room.

It is difficult to tell from this picture, but the chimney does not line up with the kitchen above. The kitchen was lengthened in the early 20th century.

Picture 2 shows the base of the extension on the far right side of the house.