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Film roll 310 is filed with the National Register negatives.
Outstanding sval house 16'4" wide by 20' long; 1 1/2 story of hewn oak logs to gable peak; door on east gable end under sval; ridgepole and purlins span upper story; rafters of poles peeled, lapped and nailed at peak; four hewn hardwood joists span first floor ceiling between gable ends; interior wall surfaces "picked" with ax as ground-interior all plastered and painted at one time; two-panel handbuilt front door, attic trapdoor made with dovetail key stiffeners; brick chimney built atop east log wall next to door; roof sheating sawn with sash mill; early application of clapboard siding (5") over logs at early date (little weathering); sval area sill timbers not continuous with house base seperate, but appear installed at time of construction; sval framework of sash sawn 4x4 oak, cut to 1 1/2" thickness where nailed to log faces; sval floor of 5" tongue and groove softwood planks; original west (rear, but road-facing) window 6 over 6 sash; second floor gable windows replaced; door and window openings on north and south walls changed over time-door opening on north wall very old (tread heavily worn) but maybe original. Present window on south wall once door-sized but partially filled; cupboard built in wall next to this window-logs cut out, hole covered with boards on outside; foundation of large igneous boulders at corners, later in-filling of sedimentary rocks in between; old staircase of sash-sawn lumber in sval intact, but apparently moved from parallel to perpindicular configuration with front (east) wall; sheathing that once enclosed sval replaced with modern lumber ca. 1940.
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