Additional Details and Findings

CRSA has drawn up draft floor and framing plans of the mansion and carriage house. The framing of the second floor appears to have two layers of subfloor underneath the finished hardwood in the same manner as the main floor.

Original electrical wiring for the house has been found embedded in the flooring on the second level.

In the southeast parlor and dining room the textured wall paper that is underneath a couple of layers of paint was applied directly to the plaster, indicating that it was the original finish for those two rooms. The east wall of the southeast parlor continues to be a puzzle. The pattern of the paneling is different and consists of three sections, rather than one continuous panel like the rest of the walls in these two rooms. The picture rail on this wall is patched with a different piece of trim. This wall also doesn’t have visible evidence of the textured wallpaper that is present in the rooms. However, there aren’t obvious signs that a fireplace was located there either. The CRSA team will continue to investigate. Pulling up the flooring on the next investigative site visit may provide more insight.

The first door off the entry hallway into the west room originally swung into that room. The door is stained dark on one side to match the wood trim in this room. At some point the door was switched to swing out into the hall instead, and now the dark stained side faces the entry hallway instead of the west room. The switch was likely done to provide better egress and more circulation in this room when it was used for large groups after it switched from being a single family home.

A portion of the ceiling in the upstairs bathroom was dropped originally for the upstairs family bathroom. Original plaster and lath ceiling can be viewed through holes in the floor boards of the mechanical closet that contains the water cistern on the attic level. The back half of the current bathroom is presumed to have been joined to the north bedroom as a suite, perhaps for a live-in housekeeper or governess.