Greek Revival

The insets of the wall are for show. They were typically used to display portraits of the mister and missus of the home.

The floor in this room is original and has no cuts. It runs all the way underneath the baseboard. The floor was set before the walls were built.

The cornice molding of the parlor entry way was set before the plaster went on.

Cornice moldings of the parlor windows.

The main entrance of the house.

Whereas the first floor has been renovated, the second floor has not. The second floor contains original pilasters and corner blocks and paneled divisions with a width that indicates that a brick wall went all the way up (not every brick house was bricked through the center).

The stairs date to the Civil War/ post Civil War period, but the house itself is from the 1830s. There was a large renovation and update.

The wood flooring in the upstairs hall is patched in an area by the stairs. The original stair position would have been circular in the patch.

When adding onto the building, the outside supports were removed, causing the house to shift. The window in the picture has sunk as a result.

This mantle, showing a conversion to coal, is made possibly from either slate, marble, or iron. The floor pattern by the furnace comes from the Arts and Crafts style, which was from the 1880s to the 1915 time period.

One would not find one door that was decorated and one that was not so close together. It is suspected that the left door was an attic entrance.

This room on the first floor contains two chimneys, one on each side. This suggests that the room was once a double parlor. There was once a doorway leading into the other side of the room (in picture 2), indicating that the room was used differently. The doorway has since been converted into a Gothic inspired cupboard (picture 3).

This room would have been the original kitchen to the house.

This room was the dining room.

This picture shows masonry support for what's above. This area was likely a rumford kitchen. Against the wall would have been the open hearth and an open section for pots and kettles.

Clay seeping through the walls in the basement.

Remnants of a fireplace in the basement. The original basement entry would have been next to the fireplace.

This large window here is made of 8x12 glass panes, which indicates that it was an addition and not original to the house.

The upper roof continues all the way down across the extension in the back (contrast to the saltbox form). It is believed that this was the only way to work around the large cornice. Instead of the roof being two feet higher then coming down, the roof was tucked underneath the cornice.

In the basement, there are twin beams that delineate the box in which the chimney comes. The flooring has been wedged to keep it level. A coal furnace was, at some point, torn out. The foundation of the house is made of sandstone, and there was a layer of brick placed on top later.

This is the parlor side of the house. The mantle has a shouldered architrave, which is indicative of the time period of the house. The brickwork is modern.

The box in the corner of the room, which is shown in picture 3, is for heating to reach the second floor.

This small room would have been originally divided into two rooms. This is illustrated from the two doors and the seam with a trim piece across on the far right wall.

The windows on the second floor are smaller than on the first floor to fit under the cornice.

Picture by Brooke Bobovnyik

The window at the peak makes you assume that the chimney is at the center of the house. It is believed that the chimneys were at the end of the house and the peak windows were added later.

The area above the first floor fireplace shows a header that cuts across. Looking at the arrangement of the boards, one learns that there was an opening that existed above this fireplace, indicating that there is a fireplace on the second floor.

Lapp marks on the walls in this room indicate that the room had board walls rather than plaster walls. This room was most likely the kitchen.

The panes of glass on the windows are way too large. The windows would have originally contained 12 over 12 window panes (3 rows of 4).

A similar size fireplace would have been in this second room on the first floor, but the trim around the windows is different from the first room. Here, there is a step-down trim. This indicates that this room was a parlor.

The cut out of this fireplace on the second floor is larger than the cut out of the kitchen fireplace. In the area this house was built, the flue for the downstairs fireplace would come in behind the second-floor fireplace; there would be a brick wall, a space for the flue, then the fireplace for the second floor.

An end chimney in the room above the parlor. Taking a closer look at the windows and plaster walls, one speculates that the house was built by someone who was very wealthy.

This little structure in the attic used to be a honeybee room.

The original log beams of the house in the basement. New square beams are present, indicating that portions of the house had been redone.

Circular saw marks indicate the beams came from a saw mill.

This is a Congregational-Presbyterian combination church, or a Plan of Union church.

In 1805, people from Connecticut began to move into the area. Connecticut's church/government wanted to prevent people in the Western Reserve from straying from religion. It decided to combine to create the Connecticut Missionary Society, which funded missionaries to visit the townships and conduct surveys to find out who was Presbyterian and who was a Congregationalist. The type of religious service depended on the results of the surveys.

By the 1820s, the Congregationalists and Presbyterians divide. This church, however, remained united.