tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331324242024-03-13T21:32:40.947-04:00The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut HomeEnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-48014919545597683312018-12-31T14:49:00.000-05:002019-01-01T20:50:07.471-05:00Revealed! An Organic 18th Century Kitchen for the Enos Kellogg Homestead<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hallelujah, hallelujah! After 17 years of anticipation and 16 months of dust, delay, and dislocation, our new kitchen, mudroom, and porch are finally finished.</div>
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I can't bear to look at the old kitchen again, so there's no before and after photos here - just after. Anyone who wants to torture themselves with the before is welcome to take a look at this <a href="https://enoskellogghouse.blogspot.com/2018/01/whats-cooking-new-old-functional.html" target="_blank">earlier post</a>.</div>
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Actually, its been (almost) finished for several months, but I have been so burnt out by the long process that I haven't had it in me to wrap it up on the blog. Seriously, this was an exhaustive and exhausting project. Also, I was waiting for final paint (almost finally finished) and for our porch and mudroom to be completed (just this week) before I took some "after" photos.</div>
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In my <a href="http://enoskellogghouse.blogspot.com/2018/01/whats-cooking-new-old-functional.html" target="_blank">last post</a>, I enumerated the many ways in which our old kitchen failed us. Beyond being both fairly small and very worn out, it was too cold in the winter, too hot in the summer, and too ugly four seasons a year. It just didn't work well for us, nor did it fit in aesthetically with the rest of our house, which probably bugged me even more than its functional limitations.</div>
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Still, there was a point in late winter, after a few burst pipes and a long string of weather-related delays, when the old kitchen started to take on a warm, nostalgic glow in our minds. It had a diswasher! And an oven. And there was grass, rather than mud around the house. Such luxury. What had we done?</div>
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By June, however, the pipes had thawed, the mud had (mostly) dried, and we were able to move into the kitchen. Of course, the last 5% of the job always seems to drag on forever. Over the past few months, our (amazing) mason rebuilt portions of our field stone walls that had to be temporarily deconstructed to allow the heavy machinery to maneuver around the job site. He also veneered the concrete block foundation around the kitchen with fieldstone, and laid stone for our porch floor. Meanwhile, the painters finished up both exterior and interior work, while I finished restoring and painting our salvaged 18th century Dutch door.</div>
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Looking back, it was an insanely large project, and I'm not sure that we could have pulled it off without the 17 years' worth of experience that we accumulated working on the main house and barn.</div>
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Housed in a 19th century timber framed barn that was moved from elsewhere on our property and attached to the main house in the 20th century, the kitchen was a mess. To preserve and expose the old timber framed barn, fix the structural issues, add functionality, and still make the end result feel like an organic extension of our 18th century house was far more complex that anything we had done before.</div>
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Exposing the original framing meant gutting the interior structure down to the timber frame, removing a small addition to the end of the structure (that had been added so that the previous owners' 1980's Cadillac would fit in what was then the garage), and then building a second roof over the original roof. The concrete block foundation was in significantly degraded condition, which meant filling the cavities in the hollow block to reinforce and stabilize the underpinnings of the entire structure. Electric and plumbing were total gut jobs, the crawl space needed to be excavated, and a new concrete floor poured (in very cramped quarters). Of course, the septic line ended up being in the one place that it couldn't be, so that had to be moved. New siding, new windows, construction of a firebox and chimney to match the originals in the house, and installation of salvaged period wainscot and an 18th century fireplace surround all required significant time and resources.</div>
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Did I mention that there was also a kitchen and pantry area to design and install? Happily, the amazing people (Dylan and Jeff) at <a href="http://kennebeccompany.com/" target="_blank">The Kennebec Company</a> helped us to come up with a design that allowed us to maximize the value of our fairly limited space. I really can't say enough about this company. They are great to work with, and I really, really like the end product. Even though most people won't be conscious of it, the hand planing on our pine cabinetry telegraphs age and craftsmanship, and just makes it fit into our house. </div>
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Most impressively, Kennebec was able to deal with a highly opinionated owner who had a lot of ideas about exactly how everything should look, and they didn't run away screaming after the 500th revision necessitated by my ever-evolving vision. Our fantastic architect, <a href="http://www.rsarchct.com/" target="_blank">Rob Sanders</a>, and our contractor of many years, <a href="http://www.rjaley.com/" target="_blank">Jud Aley</a>, also deserve major thanks for putting up with what I suspect is more "owner input" than they have experienced in the past.</div>
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In terms of fixtures and finishes, there were enough decisions to make that my head is still spinning a bit. For the cabinets, we went with a combination of stained pine cabinets in the kitchen, along with a painted hutch cupboard to hold our dishes, and an 18th century hutch table and some reproduction windsor chairs. The counters and backsplash are all soapstone, as is the farm sink. We selected a pair of Liebherr refrigerators, a KitchenAid dishwasher, and an induction top AGA Mercury stove. While we were a little nervous about the induction cooktop, we didn't want to install a propane tank in the yard, and have been happy with the choice so far. </div>
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In the pantry, we used painted pine cabinets, including a big pantry cupboard and a tall stand-alone cupboard. Everything is painted in a nice, warm brown. We put a smaller soapstone sink and another dishwasher in this area to make it easier to entertain in the main house. </div>
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The floors in both spaces are antique, wide plank oak, which were sourced from several salvage dealers around Connecticut to match the original floors in the main house. All of the doors are salvaged 18th century doors. Wherever possible, we used period hardware, although our blacksmith, Bob Valentine of the Village Blacksmith in Goshen, CT, also made some beautiful hardware for the project, based on some of the original hinges and latches in the house. I'm not sure if the fact that I have a preferred blacksmith means that I'm insane or that I'm living an interesting life. I like to believe the latter, although Jenny disagrees.</div>
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The porch and the mudroom addition were the last touches on the project. Completion of both dragged on as we struggled to find antique beams to give the impression that the addition is an old timber framed agricultural structure. Because every restaurant in the area seems to be going for the old barn look, materials that used to be ubiquitous became a months-long project to source. However, it was worth the wait, and the addition looks amazing. More importantly, the coat closet and half bath in the new space have enormously improved the functionality of the house. We love the reclaimed, weathered, red barn siding from <a href="http://www.urbanminers.com/" target="_blank">Urban Miners</a> that was used on the interior (Jenny's idea), and the antique brick tile flooring (with radiant heat) from <a href="https://www.inglenooktile.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvcqWxcbF3gIVVlgNCh0eJAjyEAAYASAAEgLhrfD_BwE" target="_blank">Inglenook Tile</a>. There's even a nice big loft to provide us with some extra storage space, accessed by an antique barn ladder from Tom Campbell at the <a href="https://www.oldwoodworkshop.com/" target="_blank">Old Wood Workshop</a>, who also saved me in a pinch when I ran short of old oak flooring for the kitchen during the install.</div>
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<br />EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-28283890960378072672018-01-04T20:32:00.000-05:002018-01-04T21:27:54.819-05:00What's Cooking? A New, Old, Functional Kitchen for Our 18th Century House<div style="text-align: justify;">
When we purchased the Enos Kellogg Homestead in 2001, it was immediately obvious that the kitchen of our new home was period perfect. Unfortunately, the period that it perfectly captured was the early 1980s.<br />
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<a href="about:invalid#zClosurez" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for 80s" height="150" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QF8UdZi18Ig/hqdefault.jpg" width="200" /></a>Normally, 80s is a pretty complimentary descriptive for me. From Hall and Oates and Duran Duran to one-hit-wonders like T'Pau and Baltimora, I love me some 80s music. And I will readily admit that my DVR has somehow been programmed to record more than its fair share of Dukes of Hazzard and Family Ties episodes. When it comes to a room in our house, however, the only 80s that I want is the 1780s. </div>
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Faced with laminate counters, a faux brick linoleum floor, twenty year old appliances, and, most egregiously, a petting zoo's worth of cutesy baby animal backsplash tiles, I viewed the kitchen as a gut job. Once we figured out that the structure had (literally) no insulation, undersized heating, and a leaky roof, Jenny and I confidently listed the kitchen among the initial projects that we would tackle in the house.<br />
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Welllllll, it didn't exactly work out according to plan.</div>
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Fast forward sixteen years through a roof-to-basement restoration of the rest of our old house, and the only changes that the kitchen has seen have been a new fridge and dishwasher, a coat of paint, new roof shingles, and some wall cavity insulation.<br />
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But, at long last, we are finally getting a new kitchen. The thing is, I don't want our kitchen to look new. It has to look like it belongs with the rest of our 18th century home. Jenny disagrees. As the cook/baker/primary kitchen denizen of the house, she would be more than happy with a fully modern, optimally functional kitchen. So, the only way this works for both of us is to create a functionally modern kitchen that is totally in keeping with the historic aesthetic of the Enos Kellogg House.<br />
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The good news is that I have had a long, long time to figure out how to pull this off.<br />
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But first, a little necessary background. The kitchen has resided in at least three locations in our house over the past 230+ years. When the house was built in the 1780s, the kitchen was placed across the back of the saltbox dwelling, behind two parlors at the front of the structure. The heart of this room was the massive hearth, with a bake oven located in the rear of the firebox. This room remains almost entirely intact, although it now serves as our living room.<br />
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At some point, after hearth cooking had given way to iron stoves, which, in turn, ceded their role to modern ranges, the kitchen was relocated to our current guest room, a 19th century addition to the rear of the main house that likely was originally built as an in-law or hired man's room. This transition probably happened in the early 20th century.<br />
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This placement didn't last particularly long, however, as the kitchen was subsequently moved again - this time to a 19th century, timber framed structure that was moved from elsewhere on the property and tacked on to the rear of the house as an ell. This building began its life as some sort of agricultural building - probably a wagon shed or barn, although there is a chance that it was a piggery, as such a building is noted in Enos Kellogg's probate records. In any case, late 19th century photos of our house show what is very likely this building as a freestanding edifice located further behind the house. By the mid-20th century (and possibly earlier) the building had been appended to the house, and by the 1960s, half of the structure had been converted to a kitchen, and the other half to a garage. Layers of bad floor tiles and the full encasement of the timber frame in drywall indicate that this was meant to be a "modern" room, existing independent of the 18th century architectural details evident in the main house.<br />
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Our predecessors in the house gave the kitchen an astoundingly cheap and stylistically painful overhaul sometime around 1982, creating the rightfully-maligned Reagan-era kitchen that we inherited and have conspired against for the last 16 years.<br />
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Despite our initial assessment, it didn't take us long to realize that a litany of non-deferrable issues like a leaky roof, decrepit bathroom, structural rot, junky windows, and collapsing barn would require us to postpone tackling the kitchen. So, we made an uneasy peace with the juvenile fauna, peeling linoleum and de-laminating laminates of the space. Still, year after year, the prospect of a major kitchen renovation hung tantalizingly just over the horizon. Until early this year, when we realized that there finally were no more must-take-care-of-immediately obligations on our seemingly endless list of house projects. I guess that even the most insatiable of money pits eventually takes pity on its indentured inhabitants.<br />
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So, before some new house crisis arose, we began planning the new kitchen, with help from designers <a href="http://www.jeffpeaveydesign.com/" target="_blank">Jeff Peavey and Dylan Estabrooks </a>at the <a href="http://kennebeccompany.com/" target="_blank">Kennebec Company</a> in Bath Maine, who would be making our cabinetry, and from <a href="http://www.rsarchct.com/" target="_blank">Rob Sanders</a>, a local architect with impressive experience (and a nice collection of awards) working on historic homes.<br />
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From the outset, there were a few things that I knew we wanted to do with the kitchen. First, needing more space, we were going to combine the kitchen and garage space into a much longer kitchen. We also were committed to lowering the floor to increase the volume of the space and allow us to incorporate modern, full-height appliances. And we wanted to build a mudroom off of the kitchen, and to add a fireplace to echo the anchor point of an actual 18th century kitchen. Finally, we wanted to restore and expose the 19th century timer frame structure.<br />
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I also new that I wanted Kennebec to do the cabinetry work. I had seen their kitchens on This Old House over the years, and had seen other examples of their work in magazines, and their commitment to the same kind of time-tested craftsmanship that is manifested elsewhere in our house was consistently evident. When friends showed us their recent Kennebec kitchen in their <a href="http://www.jeffpeaveydesign.com/projects/abijah-comstock-house/" target="_blank">beautiful 18th century house</a> in neighboring New Canaan, we were totally sold.<br />
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After months of design work (and Job-like patience from Jeff and Dylan), we came up with a kitchen layout and cabinet design that we really liked. At the same time, we worked with our architect (also eminently patient and sensible) to fit everything into the still-limited confines of the timber frame structure (which we weren't willing to compromise), and to design a complementary structure to serve as a mudroom and entryway to the house from the driveway. Again, we had relatively little space with which to work, and wanted to incorporate a mudroom, coat closet, and half bath, all in a building that would create a smooth aesthetic transition from our 1780s barn across the driveway to the main house.<br />
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While we labored on design and budgeting, I began interior demolition of the garage and kitchen. As I had suspected, we had a pretty nice timber frame buried beneath nasty 20th century sheetrock, plywood and peg board.<br />
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In November, our contractor, <a href="http://www.rjaley.com/" target="_blank">RJ Aley</a>, broke ground on the project. Plumbing and electric were gutted, the 20th century floor system was removed, and the crawl space was excavated in anticipation of pouring of a slab over what had previously been a largely dirt floored space. The hollow concrete block foundation was filled with concrete for reinforcement. A new roof was also built directly over the existing roof, which would allow us to expose the original rafters in the kitchen and to properly insulate the structure from above.<br />
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Two months into the project, the crawl space floor has been poured, the new floor joists and sub-floor are installed in the kitchen, window and door openings have been roughed in, the slab for the mudroom addition is poured, and the chimney base is laid. Even our reclaimed 18th century hearthstone is in place, awaiting construction of the new firebox and chimney above it.<br />
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Meanwhile, I have spent a significant amount of time traveling among a variety of salvage dealers in Connecticut, accumulating 18th century wide plank oak for the kitchen floors, some great interior and exterior doors, period hardware, and beams needed for repair in the kitchen, and to add character to the newly built mudroom. I was particularly lucky to find an extraordinary 18th century raised panel Dutch door at <a href="http://www.urbanminers.com/" target="_blank">UrbanMiners</a>. I am in the process of restoring it, but is an amazing match for the original front door on our house - truly a needle-in-a-haystack find. For anyone looking for great 18th century architectural salvage, I have also had fantastic experiences with Brooklyn Restoration Supply (no web site, but truly the most mind-blowing collection of period materials that I have ever encountered), <a href="http://www.oldenewenglandsalvage.com/" target="_blank">Olde New England Salvage</a>, and Art Pappas in Woodbury.<br />
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Jeff and Dylan trekked down from Maine last week to take final measurements for the cabinets, and we are working out the final details on the best way to maximize the amount of exposed timber frame inside the kitchen.<br />
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As I write, we have almost a foot of fresh snow on the ground, but warmer temperatures next week hopefully will allow us to move ahead with framing the mudroom addition. Particularly after a minor burst pipe earlier this week (a result of freezing winds infiltrating the house from the open end of the kitchen), we are looking forward to getting the house fully buttoned up at last.<br />
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<br />EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-35978525133244714172017-03-26T12:02:00.000-04:002017-03-26T12:02:53.876-04:00Of Mice and Men: The Other Residents in Our Old HouseThe Enos Kellogg House has mice. I think it is pretty safe to say that it always has. With a steady supply of food, sources of heat, and a (usually) sound roof, the house has always had a lot to offer to people and critters alike.<br />
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And there is ample evidence that our predecessors in the house experienced the not-so-enjoyable company of various varmints over the centuries. It is the rare opening of a wall or ceiling that doesn't uncover a mouse nest of one size or another. Unfortunately, the restoration process has also revealed more than a few desiccated mouse bodies, as well. I keep hoping to find gold, valuable artifacts, or at least a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_shoes" target="_blank">good-luck shoe</a> tucked away, but all that ever surfaces are miniature mice mummies.<br />
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In scraping layers and layers of paint from original baseboards in the house, I also uncovered a few good old fashioned mouse holes. Most of these had had pieces of tin (including old can lids) tacked over them to close them up. Once the tin was removed, they looked surprising like the kind of mouse holes that you see in cartoons. We patched and repainted the baseboards, and, happily, no new portals to the mouse world have appeared under our administration.<br />
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So, it's pretty clear that humans and mice have coexisted in our house since probably the 1780s. Now for a little disturbing math. Based on the age of our house and the life cycle of the mouse, I estimate that there have been over 1,200 generations of vermin in our house. Scary. Assuming, as Darwin hypothesized, that species evolve over time, who is to say that some sort of weird creature hasn't emerged in the semi-closed system that is the Enos Kellogg House. Maybe that would explain the sometimes disturbing noises that we hear behind the walls on some nights.<br />
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At the risk of upsetting the delicate environmental balance of our home's ecosystem, we have taken what is probably a more aggressive position on mice than was practiced by our forefathers. We have had cats throughout our years in the house, and a few of them have been fairly active mousers. Taking things up a notch, we also employ a pest control service that installed and monitors bait stations around the yard and house. This has made a noticeable difference in our mouse population. And while we are still visited by the occasional trespasser, we are now much more likely to find them hunkered down out back in our firewood stack than in our living room. While I tend to be a purist when it comes to our house, authenticity can only be taken so far, and mice rank right up there with outdoor bathrooms when it comes to elements of 18th century living that I am happy to forgo.<br />
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Nice to come home from a few days of vacation to find the house in fine shape despite a messy March snowstorm, I won't mention the ice damns (not a typo), as I am trying to block them from my mind.</div>
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Earlier this year, I submitted a nomination for the Enos Kellogg Homestead for a restoration award being sponsored by the <a href="http://www.historicamericanhomes.org/" target="_blank">Society for Historic American Homes</a> (check them out - their mission approaches preservation in a pragmatic, hands-on way that I really like). Anyway, one of the requirements of the nomination was that I submit photos illustrating our restoration of the property. </div>
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While I have periodically trotted out "before and after" pictures of the property, they have tended to span a much longer time period, like <a href="http://enoskellogghouse.blogspot.com/2015/02/125-years-of-photographs-o.html" target="_blank">how the house has changed over the course of 125 years</a>. </div>
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For this project, I needed photos that focused just on what we had done to the house. So, down the electronic rabbit hole I went.</div>
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As it turns out, combing through our badly-organized digital photo archive can be a somewhat unsettling experience. Even over just fifteen years, the accretion of large and small changes somehow adds up to way more than one might expect. Either that, or I just have a really terrible memory. I used to have hair? The kids used to be that small? WTF?</div>
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What I discovered with regard to the Enos Kellogg Homestead was no different. While we frequently tell people what a <strike>dump</strike> compelling restoration opportunity our house was when we bought it, I have repressed many of the more sordid visual details of the state of our home way back in 2001. The leaky roof, peeling paint, crumbling plaster and collapsing barn are little more than fuzzy memories. </div>
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So, as someone who tends to obsess about every ding in our walls or flake of paint peeling off of a window sill, it was both startling and gratifying to look back at what we have accomplished over fifteen years.</div>
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With the caveat that the "after" photos very dishonestly have been purged of the the wayward toys, laundry baskets, and sundry junk that typically wanders around our house on any given day, herewith are excerpts from the restoration of the Enos Kellogg Homestead:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After Restoration (2014)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interior - Restored 2001 and Counting</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Original Kitchen</span></u></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Original Kitchen in 2001</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Wall between Kitchen and Milk Room during restoration</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Restored wall between Kitchen and Milk Room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Hand scraping original beaded vertical paneling</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Restored Kitchen facing south</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Restored Kitchen facing north</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original cooking hearth (photo credit: The Hour)</td></tr>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">South Parlor</span></u><b> </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Parlor during restoration</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Parlor during restoration</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Parlor fireplace being re-pointed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Restored South Parlor fireplace</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Restored South Parlor looking into original Kitchen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Restored South Parlor looking towards front door</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Firebox and paneling before restoration</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Restored firebox and paneled surround</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Restored North Parlor (photo credit: The Hour)</td></tr>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Dining Room</span></u><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dining room - no restoration beyond paint (photo credit: The Hour)</td></tr>
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Restored second floor bathroom (photo credit: The Hour)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note the tile floor caving in to left</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Mater Bathroom (photo credit: The Hour)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bathroom addition</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Completed bathroom addition</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Half Bath</u></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A shower stall previously took up almost this entire room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">18th century interior door being restored</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Original Dutch front door after restoration</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Staircase</u></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Original staircase during restoration<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking down restored staircase (photo credit: The Hour)</td></tr>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Chimney Relining</span></u></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Formers in the chimney</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Kitchen firebox</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Parlor firepace all fired up</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><u>The Barn - Restored 2013</u></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exterior Pre-restoration (2013)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior Pre-restoration (2013)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> After Restoration (2013)</span><br />
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Of course, while I pat ourselves on the back for the progress that we have made on our house, I don't mean to imply that the restoration is completely done, or will ever totally end (please don't tell Jenny that). You may have noticed, for example, that I have never mentioned or posted a picture of our kitchen. This is simply because we haven't done <i>anything</i> other than paint it since we bought the house. And this is a kitchen with a peeling faux-brick linoleum floor, outdated cabinets, counters and appliances, and serious climate control issues. Not to mention the appalling back splash tiled with illustrations of baby woodland animals that we were absolutely, definitely, 100% going to rip out as soon as we moved in. Fifteen years ago. Happily, just as I forget so many details from the past, my mind barely even registers the mocking presence of these cartoonish baby rabbits, squirrels, and skunks these days. <br />
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The good news is that we are (finally) in the nascent stages of planning for a full kitchen renovation. Not only will that mean the end of the insipid animal tiles, but it also might mean that I actually have some semi-regular posts on the blog over the next year or so. We shall see.</div>
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EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-40813928061554647322017-02-24T21:50:00.000-05:002017-02-24T21:54:49.787-05:00Extra! Extra! Read All About Us!The Enos Kellogg Homestead got some love last week week, as our local Norwalk newspaper, The Hour, featured the restoration of our home in its "Habitat" series.<br />
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It's always nice to show off the house to an appreciative audience, and the reporter, Kaitlyn Krasselt, was a pleasure to deal with.<br />
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The article appeared in a number of Hearst Company papers around Fairfield County.<br />
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Here is the link: <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "robotobold" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thehour.com/realestate/article/Habitat-Family-shares-love-of-historic-saltbox-10938962.php" target="_blank">Habitat: Family shares love of historic saltbox home</a></span><br />
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As an added bonus, there are 50 pictures along with the article, including some interior shots that are far better than anything I have been able to produce, so be sure to check out the images.<br />
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I've learned some interesting things about our house and its inhabitants in old issues of The Hour and other local newspapers over the years (see my <a href="http://enoskellogghouse.blogspot.com/2016/06/in-news-hundered-and-twenty-some-years.html" target="_blank">earlier blog post</a> on this research). There are even little notices posted by or about Enos Kellogg himself in the old Norwalk Gazette two hundred years ago. Hopefully, in a couple of centuries someone will have a read of this article in The Hour's holographic archives to better understand exactly what was going on in our home in the early 21st century.<br />
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<br />EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-74944566957696849522016-06-14T22:51:00.003-04:002016-06-14T22:51:42.386-04:00In the News (a hundered and twenty-some years ago) . . . The Enos Kellogg Homestead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Does anyone else remember those <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j52a8B-GyOU" target="_blank">In The News</a> segments that were sprinkled between Saturday morning cartoons in the 70s and early 80s? No? Just me? Oh well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In any case, I found some history of the Enos Kellogg Homestead in the news this week. Of course, the news was from the 1890s, so it doesn't really fall under the heading of current events, but I still found it interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The back story is that the Connecticut State Library has digitized a number of newspaper archives, including a partial catalog of <i>The Norwalk Gazette</i> and the <i>Evening Gazette </i>from the late 19th century. Check it out <a href="http://cslib.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15019coll9" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, as soon as I stumbled on the site, I started searching for information on our house. A couple of keyword searches hit the jackpot. "Edwin Comstock", who owned our house and operated the Comstock Brothers Nursery and, later, the Comstock & Lyon Nursery on our property generated some good results, as did "Four Corners", which was the local geographic name for our property (the four corners were created by the intersection of New Canaan Avenue, Ponus Avenue and Carter Street before the construction of the Merritt Parkway muddied the pleasing geometry).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It's fascinating to see what a small town Norwalk really was in the 1890s. Illness and dog bites were literally front page news. These newspaper stories also illustrate how important agriculture remained even in a coastal New England city in the Victorian era. Crop reports and weather were a big deal. It is sort of surprising that even at such a relatively recent date, most Americans were not far removed from subsistence living. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Equally interesting (to me) is the public notice of Edwin and Emma Comstock adopting their daughter in 1894. Pretty cool to see something so momentous for our predecessors in the house in print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tying everything back into our current life on the Enos Kellogg Homestead are the repeated references to the bountiful harvests of strawberries, peaches, pears, and cider on our farm. </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm amazed to learn how large an agricultural operation was being run on our farm - thousands of baskets of strawberries, pears, and peaches are far more than I ever would have guessed were being raised on 60 acres in Norwalk. </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Not coincidentally, our newly planted orchard has an array of heirloom apple and peach trees, and I guess I will need to add a couple of Bartlett Pears to keep up with the Comstocks (Keeping Up with the Comstocks - now </span><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">that</i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> is a reality show that I would enjoy). Our strawberries, meanwhile, have been abundant, large, and without exception consumed by the chipmunks this year. I guess we have a way to go before we do justice to the agricultural legacy of our property.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">Mr. George E. Comstock, of New Canaan Four </span>Corners<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">, has probably the largest and finest strawberry layout of any farmer or fruit raiser in Norwalk. He has already marketed nearly two thousand baskets and if rain comes soon, he will be able to harvest from five to seven thousand more. His berries are all Sharpless and Champion varieties, and are large and luscious. The Sharpless is the earliest and sweetest and the Champion a later, firmer fleshed and richer, though more acid berry. His vines and fruit show the very highest state of cultivation. He has an orchard of young peach trees loaded with fruit and give promise of fully five thousand baskets, this fall. Comstock's is a case where faithful tillage brings profitable results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">There has long existed a good natured yet earnest rivalry between two neighbors residing on near, yet quiet and sedate, Belden avenue, as to which should secure the finest and choicest brands of cider. This competition ran-more fierce the past fall than usual, for the reason chiefly we presume, that the last apple crop was a failure and ergo, cider, scarce and high, and with a chronic tendency towards being reduced by illicit contact with the honest farmers' cooling wells or springs of water. By way of a clearer designation we will denominate one of these rivals the east-sider and the other the west-sider. Now, it eventuated early in the Autumn,, that the West-sider got a really superior though very small, installment from patriotic and thrifty "Comstock Hill" that was conceded a little ahead of anything shown on Belden avenue up to that date. This excited the spirit of commercial rivalry in the breast of the East-sider at once. He resolved to beat Comstock Hill's product, or perish in the endeavor. So he scoured Darien, Stamford, North Stamford and White Oak Shade; got divers "samples." but all proved to be below grade. At length he heard of an honest Teuton, a man from the romantic and legendary wine producing land of the Rhone and the Rhine, who having come to America and settled on high, sightly and salubrious Belden Hill, had essayed to throw all the inherited skill and talent of his wine making ancestors for ten centuries, into the manufacture of sound, solid, un-impeached and unimpeachable Connecticut apple juice. The friend from the Fader land had carefully hand picked his Roxbury Russets at the latest period of safety. Had piled them high on the cool barn floor, covered with clean rye straw—so that they might there sweat, and mellow and ripen to the exact point of perfect juice—or so he said he did. East-side was not long in urging his coal black steeds up to the good German's house. The visitation was rapidly explained, and the enthusiastic Rhinelander, flattered at such unexpected attention, effusively protested that he had "Ciders dat was so petter ash good ash never vasand forthwith hurried for a testing sample in his wife's choicest bric-a- brac milk pitcher. * "Now you tastes and you schmelles dat ciders and you see dot it is ish so petter as lager-peer. Yahs, 'it is so petter ' as all de Rhine wines as ish made; de- Zinfaudel, La-rose, Medoc, Lafits, Yquem, BougeOt, Chablis, Beaujolais, Qautent, Johtin-nisburg, Marcobrunner, ; Reedeschei-mer, Stein win, Leibfraumlich,' Niers-teioner. Laubeuheimer, Bodenheimer, Hocheimer," and'a; dozen:other .Dutch "Heimers" which Teuton rolled off in such hurr'ed gutteral, as nearly took East-side's breath away. He drank of the cider,—once, twice and thrice— 'then confessed it was a pleasanter beverage than any Rhine wine he" had ever sampled, whether made in Germany, France or New Jersey: An order was promptly given for a forty-five gallon cask of the mellifluous apple juice. It was to be delivered at once. It came. West-side was invited over to taste, and submit to humiliation and defeat. But somehow, it had a peculiar dead end insipid flavor, and left a dark. brown taste in the mouth. East-side admitted the soft and sweet impeachment ; in fact he remarked his suspicions that the bull-frog croaking Dutchman, had doctored it with silicic acid, to prevent fomentation and keep it sweet and if he could'nt “Sprackins Deitcher" he could and would give Mr. Rhinelander a piece of his mind. Up to this date, however, honors were about even between the two rivals. Then came an overtopping, a masterful triumph to West-side. The night before Christmas, George Ed. Comstock, he of the Four </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Corners</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">, swooped down upon him and brought a royal demijohn of his choicest russet juice, for West-side to sustain life with over the trying holiday period. This so unquestionably broke the entire cider record that West-side in triumph had East-side at once sample it and then defiantly demanded an unconditional surrender. But East-side wanted a few days trial; he had seen Teuton who swore there had been no doctoring done to his cider; that its flat taste all came from his having put his big barrel close up to his house-heating furnace, and if he would carry it outside he would soon find the' 'nip'' he craved, would return to it. But East-side is a prudent man and caution suggested that he cool it off by smaller installments; so he took an afternoon off, gathered up all the empty and dejected champagne bottles he could find ; rinsed them thoroughly, Med him down to the drug store, bought new corks, got boiling water and soaked 'em; jammed a lump of cut sugar and a raisin into each bottle, then pressed in the corks, carefully wiring each one and then deftly carried all by the arm-full out the cellar and removing the lattice underneath . his back stoop he hid them there in seried ranks like a platoon of soldiers on guard. All this time, he was muttering to himself that he would show West-side a thing or two in the cider line that would humble his pride and fill him with mortification and dismay. He 'would let the bottles stay there tilt the cider had a chance to ripen, mellow and grow oily and smooth by the freezing process and then he would send for West-side, uncork a bottle and cover him with confusion. The cold snap accommodated East-side by coming promptly. In fact coining down to zero it came if not a little to promptly at least a good deal too strong, for when he got down his back stoop lattice again, and essayed to withdraw his cider -bottles, lo, what did his- eager -eyes and watering palate, behold. His bottles, as he expressed it, "all-busted" and his cider all, “f<i>rappe.</i>” It isn't safe to speak of frozen cider to East-sider now, unless your lines of retreat are open.</span></div>
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Singing—By the Choir. Prayer—W. E. Stiles. Reading—"Sketch of Longfellow's
Life," Miss Edna Wilson. Singing—By the Choir. Reading—"Paul Revere's
Ride." Master Harry Comstock. Impromptu Readings. Recitation—"The
Children's Hour." Miss Nettie Comstock. Reading—"The Bridge."
Miss Lillie Britto. Piano Solo—Miss Millie Smith. Reading—"The Wreck of Hesperus."
Miss Laura Comstock. Singing—"God be With You 'Till We Meet Again."
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">The name "Comstock" has this season, been made synonymous with superiority in strawberry culture. Up to the present week, Comstock Hill was clearly in the lead as to size and flavor of its strawberry product, but now, Edwin Comstock of New Canaan Four </span>Corners<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">, is a successful competitor. Yesterday he brought to the Norwalk market specimens of two varieties raised on his noted fruit farm, that, for size and lusciousness of flavor, exceed anything that has yet come under our observation. Norwalk could give a very interesting and successful strawberry exhibition.</span></div>
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Jenny and I learned last week that a beautiful c.1735 house in the neighboring town of New Canaan is <a href="http://newcanaanite.com/one-of-the-last-remaining-artifacts-of-new-canaan-preservationists-explore-ways-to-save-historic-ferris-hill-road-home-36656" target="_blank">under the threat of demolition</a>. This is a spectacular house - one of the oldest in New Canaan - sitting on a gorgeous lot on one of the most picturesque streets in the area. If one were to conjure up an image of old New England, the Hoyt-Burwell-Morse house might immediately spring to mind.</div>
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See for yourself - the property's owner has a nice site with some great pictures of the house: <a href="http://www.8ferrishill.com/" target="_blank"> www.8ferrishill.com</a>.</div>
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I had an opportunity to tour the house two years ago, and was immediately blown away by how similar it is to our own home. Although our house is larger by one bay, and while the two structures apparently were constructed around 50 years apart, they could be siblings. Both are classic saltboxes, with massive chimney stacks, nearly identical room layouts, and an unusual stairway placement that diverges significantly from the typical-for-the-time center staircase. The visible framing details, including the raised plate on the rear of the second floor, are also eerily similar. The original cooking hearths in both homes appear completely identical, down to the beautifully dressed stonework and the bake oven located in the back right corner of the enormous firebox. I was interested to learn this week that the house (8 Ferris Hill Road) has the same large beehive bake oven located in the basement that our house possesses. This is a particularly unusual feature that has elicited surprise from several architectural historians who have visited our property.</div>
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But for the 50 years between their believed construction dates, I would swear that both buildings must have been designed or built by the same individual. As it is, I think that it is entirely possible that the Ferris Hill house might have been an inspiration for our house. And while maybe a stretch, it is not impossible that they were designed or constructed by the same housewright, or by two individuals who worked together during the 18th century. Given that the Ferris Hill house is literally "up the road" from our house, particularly by the standards of rural 18th century Norwalk/New Canaan, it is almost inconceivable that the inhabitants of the two houses were not well-known to each other (and probably related in some way, as was common at the time). I can almost hear Enos and Lydia Kellogg planning their house in 1784 and deciding that they wanted a house "like the old Hoyt house up on Ferris Hill."</div>
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What strikes me when I think about our house and 8 Ferris Hill is the fact that while all historic buildings have something to teach us on their own, these structures, acting in concert, can teach us even more. For example, we felt that it was critically important to restore our c.1784 barn because the barn and house, together, tell a far richer story about farm life in 18th century Norwalk than either one ever could on its own. Similarly, having a house like 8 Ferris Hill enriches the story of our own house. I know this to be true at a micro level - given their unusual stylistic similarities, original details that I observed in a 45 minute tour of 8 Ferris Hill answered a number of questions about our house that had long puzzled me - questions for which I probably never would have arrived at a satisfactory answer otherwise. </div>
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More broadly, a seven minute drive along the ancient Indian trail that is now Ponus Avenue (where we live) in Norwalk, and Carter Street and Canoe Hill Road in New Canaan, provides one with an amazing, albeit condensed, tour of the evolution of rural Connecticut architecture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Removing any one of the antique homes along this four mile stretch, by definition, diminishes the story of how this area was settled, flourished, and evolved, and how our ancestors lived and interacted. The damage is particularly acute when one ponders the destruction of a truly unique resource like 8 Ferris Hill. Having sat at its current location for 280 years, this structure, to one degree or another, informs our understanding of every other building in the area from 1735 to today.</div>
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Obviously, this house struck a major chord with me, and to know that it might be demolished turns my stomach. In no small part, this is because the parallels between this house and the Enos Kellogg Homestead remind me of how easily our house could have faced the wrecking ball if we had not come along at the right time. Moreover, in our house, I see an example of what the Ferris Hill house could be in the hands of the right person. Unfortunately, the clock is ticking fast. While the property's owner has made it clear that he sincerely wants the house saved, the realities of a subdued real estate market, zoning regulations, the relatively small pool of antique house lovers with the money and vision to take on such a restoration project, and the inexplicable obsession in Fairfield County with newer, bigger, flashier McMansions (with as many rooms, gables and incongruous window styles as you can possibly cram into one dwelling) seem to be conspiring against a happy ending. There is some hope in that New Canaan, in general, seems to be rallying around preserving the house, and a variety of options that could preserve it in its current location have been put forward. In my opinion, the best outcome would be for an individual to step forward with a plan to purchase the property and restore the house, either with or without a sympathetic addition to the structure.</div>
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So, if anyone out there knows of someone who might be interested in an opportunity to do something extraordinary, please reach out to them. If anyone thinks that a house like this cannot be saved, I invite you to come for a tour of our place, which was in only superficially better condition than 8 Ferris Hill when we moved in. If anyone thinks that a house like 8 Ferris Hill cannot be made safe and, indeed, extraordinarily comfortable for a modern family, I extend the same offer. It can be done, and the process, itself, can be as fulfilling and satisfying as the end result.</div>
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Since I haven't taken the time to post anything in months, I thought that I would post this good, <a href="http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/home-3/national-register-of-historic-places" target="_blank">brief synopsis on the National Register of Historic Places from Yankee Magazine</a>.</div>
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Having gone through the nomination process for the Enos Kellogg Homestead a few years ago, I can confirm that that it can be done by a sufficiently-motivated (or cheap) homeowner. That said, it sure helps to have access to a knowledgeable professional for advice on navigating the ins and outs of the process. Thanks, to my friend Tod Bryant at <a href="http://www.heritageresourcesct.com/" target="_blank">Heritage Resources</a> for patiently answering all of my questions and lending general support throughout the year-long process.</div>
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Not only might a slot on the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/nr/" target="_blank">National Register</a> lend some degree of protection to our nation's historical architectural resources, but I guarantee that you will learn at least a little bit of new information when you undertake the nomination process. If nothing else, putting everything that you know down on paper and answering questions from the review board helps to connect dots, introduce new avenues to explore, and generate some expert-provided context for your property.</div>
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EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-51625674693459758462015-08-12T11:42:00.000-04:002015-08-12T11:42:01.932-04:00The (House) Dating Game<div style="text-align: justify;">
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From New England, the house-dating capital of the world it's . . .</div>
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This is particularly true when you are dealing with early American houses that were built in the 17th, 18th, or early 19th centuries. In stark contrast to a culture that tends to be obsessed with youth, connoisseurs of old houses want old. Or older. Or, best of all, oldest. <br />
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A quick drive around any ancient town in New England will give you some insight into the highly competitive world of structure dating. This competition is carried out not on a field or court, of course, but on a series of handsome plaques affixed to the facades of America's historic buildings.<br />
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Having spent more than my fair share of time around old houses and old house people, and having worked on the historic plaque program for my own town's historical society for ten years, there are some bizarre phenomenon that continue to both puzzle and amuse me:<br />
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<u>The Spirit of '76 </u><br />
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/></a>If the plaques and historic home real estate sites are to believed, despite the whole war with England thing, the colonists were building houses like crazy in 1776. Never mind that there must have been intense demand for manpower and supplies from the warring factions, every colonist was busy building an HGTV-worthy dream house. Strangely, this construction fever seems not to have been as fervent in 1775 or 1777.<br />
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<u>The Pre-Rev Paradox</u><br />
Among those few early American homes that weren't built in 1776, there seem to be surprisingly few that were built between 1777 and 1830, at least according to the homemade plaques. In fact, almost anything that could even conceivably pass as being 18th century seems to be labeled as pre-Revolutionary War.<br />
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Now, on the surface, this makes no sense. After all, shouldn't there be fewer houses remaining the further back one goes in time? Particularly with the British showing a penchant for burning the property of "traitors" from time to time? <br />
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Many of these houses lack crucial details that would attest to their colonial status. Many more possess details that would seem to indicate a post-Revolutionary war construction date. All easily explainable, as it turns out. Aren't those glaringly Greek Revival details? Added in a major renovation. Isn't that square rule timber framing, rather than the earlier scribe rule? The builder was an early adopter of new building technology. Why do the land records indicate that no house existed on a property until 1815? Sloppy colonial record keeping.<br />
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To be sure, those can all be valid explanations for dating anomalies, but it is amazing how much effort it sometimes takes to explain away the evidence that might indicate that a house is a beautiful 1790s or 1800s structure, rather than an elaborately misunderstood pre-Revolutionary dwelling. As for me, I am a staunch believer in Occum's Razor - the simplest explanation has the greatest likelihood of being correct. So, if it looks like a 1790s house, and the records point to it being a 1790s house, it probably is a 1790s house.<br />
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In the interest of full disclosure, I have lived the pain of losing a true colonial house. When we bought the Enos Kellogg Homestead, it had a plaque with a very convincing "1753" boldly emblazoned on it. We were beyond excited to live in a house that was "older than our country." Until it wasn't.<br />
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Two years after moving in, we had an experienced researcher from the Norwalk Historical Society dig into the history of the house. And the evidence was pretty compelling. Our house had been built in 1784. Or 1785. Honestly, it even could have been 1786. Who's to say? "Circa 1784" was the decision. And I was sort of depressed. Even though our house was unchanged, it took a while before I felt like the house was not diminished in some way. Emotionally, older is just cooler, somehow.<br />
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<u>The 17th Century Core-ollary</u><br />
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It happens in person, but also in real estate blurbs, and sounds something like this: "Well, the architectural historian/town/ historical society puts the house around 1725, but we believe that the core of the house is 1690s." There is rarely any supporting evidence provided, and the date is always 1690s, never earlier. I guess that 1680s or 1670s pushes credibility too much. A variation is "The house is circa 1820, but the core is pre-1776." As it turns out, there are more of these mysterious "cores" in the old house world than in an apple orchard.<br />
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<u>The Jedi Mind Trick</u></div>
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Some homeowners seem to believe that all it takes is sheer force of will to date your house. <br />
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Deed research often is far from definitive, and generally involves a healthy does of conjecture. Property lines were described based on transient (over the course of centuries) landmarks and neighbors. Houses and outbuildings were built, knocked down, and moved. Descriptors that once held meaning now mean nothing to anyone. Enos Kellogg's will, for example, referenced "the wood lot", "the Wapon Swamp", and "the Salt Meadow at Barron Marsh, so-called". Unfortunately, these places are "so-called" by nobody in 2015. I still have no idea what they mean. All of this is to say that establishing an exact construction year is damn hard, even when good land records exist.<br />
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So, if things are a bit ambiguous (or simply not to your liking), many homeowners past and present have chosen to go the authoritative route - by picking a date and ferociously committing to it. "Circa" be damned, and always pick a year than doesn't end in a zero or five (which make it sound like you are guessing). If you aren't going to go with the always-popular 1776, try 1767, 1729, or 1693. And remember, if you say it with enough conviction, it becomes true!<br />
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<br />EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-60757938307795903622015-02-26T22:01:00.000-05:002015-02-27T11:43:14.561-05:00The House in Pictures: 1890 - 2014<div style="text-align: justify;">
It occurred to me recently that I had never posted in one place all of the old pictures of the Enos Kellogg House that have come to us in various ways over the past fourteen years. So, I sat down and tried to establish a chronology of the images in our collection. While I knew the dates of the most recent photos, dating the earlier pictures required some detective work (and a lot of "circas"). </div>
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Trees proved to be the key to establishing the chronology of the early photos (and I'm talking about something much more rudimentary than dendrochronology here). Clearly, as is the case with any real movie star, our house has a "good side", as almost all of the pictures that we have found were taken with the southeast corner of the house in the foreground. This meant that I could watch the comings and goings of specific trees, as well as their growth progress, from a consistent angle. An insanely huge elm tree in the oldest images was particularly helpful.</div>
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When viewed in chronological order, it is fascinating to watch the ebb and flow of the house's condition, as it goes from well-maintained, to a bit rundown, and back to well-maintained again following the renovations that occurred periodically.</div>
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Underneath each picture, I have noted where we got the image, as well as who lived in the house at the time pictured.</div>
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This image has descended in the Kellogg/Comstock family, and was very kindly shared with me by Enos Kellogg's great, great, great, great, great granddaughter (thanks, Deby!).</div>
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Living in the house at the time (and almost certainly the people pictured in the photo) were George E. "Edwin" Comstock and his wife Emma R. Comstock. A super-close zoom will show a child in the half-open dutch door - presumably their adopted daughter Nettie.</div>
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Note the small vine growing on the post of the addition on the right side of the house.</div>
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The residents are still Edwin, Emma and Nettie Comstock, plus Emma's father, Harvey Lyon, who was a partner in the nursery operated on the property.</div>
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I know this photo to be from 1912, as it is the front side of a postcard advertising a "Dahlia Fete" benefit held at the farm that year to raise money for the construction of Norwalk's Home for the Aged. Emma Comstock was the Chairwoman of the group that raised funds for the home. The <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1898&dat=19120917&id=DgcgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=umQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2778,620212" target="_blank">September 17, 1912 issue</a> of the <i>Norwalk Hour</i> recounts that "The Hour received a photographic card with a fine picture of the Comstock farm on one side and on the reverse the following original and catchy verses." We were lucky to have found a copy of the same photographic card in a 1960 Yale University architectural history study of our house that was given to us by the previous owners. The catch verses are shown at the right.</div>
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This image was found online as part of the records of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program to create a "<a href="http://cslib.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p4005coll7" target="_blank">Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut</a>", which I previously posted about <a href="http://enoskellogghouse.blogspot.com/2012/03/thanks-fdr-wpa-photo-of-enos-kellogg.html" target="_blank">here</a>. The WPA survey of our house appears to be from 1935.</div>
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In 1935, at the time of the survey, the house was owned by John J. and Agnes Cavanagh. The Cavanaghs, however, lived in a mansion elsewhere in Norwalk, which was a more befitting residence for the founder of the world's largest hat manufacturer, the Hat Corporation of America. Town directories for Norwalk describe our house as the "Private Estate" of John Cavanagh, and show the resident of the house at this time to be Pliny Rogers, "Farm Superintendent for John J. Cavanagh". Presumably our property was Mr. Cavanagh's gentleman's farm out in the relative "country" of West Norwalk.</div>
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This image was also found in the 1960 Yale study of our house, and is dated 1948 in the lower left-hand corner. The photograph was almost certainly provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Newell (whom I wrote about <a href="http://enoskellogghouse.blogspot.com/2012/05/whale-house-old-house-and-other-stories.html" target="_blank">here</a>). The Newells purchased the Enos Kellogg House in 1947, and remained there until 1973.</div>
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Note that the house now sports an elaborate (and badly anachronistic) front porch, which was likely added by Dr. Albert Mittendorf and his wife Mildred, who owned the house from 1939 through 1947. The house seems to have had a relatively recent overhaul.</div>
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This illustration of the house is a watercolor painted by Robert R. Newell. It comes from what appears to be an unpublished children's book "The Old House" (see it <a href="http://enoskellogghouse.blogspot.com/2012/05/whale-house-old-house-and-other-stories.html" target="_blank">here</a>). A copy (but sadly not the original) of this little book conveyed to us when we bought the house.<br />
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The second porch is gone by this time, but we now have shutters that don't quite work with the window positioning.<br />
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This photo is from the real estate listing for the property when we purchased it from William and Jane Ziegler in 2001. A little overgrown once again, and a bit more run-down than the low-res picture might indicate. Good thing we were too naive to know any better!</div>
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And here we are now (more or less). This is after 13 years of restoration, including removing encroaching plants, lowering the grade around the house, re-roofing, replacing windows, re-siding, re-painting, re-pointing the foundation, and restoring the c.1784 barn in background. And that's just the work visible from the outside.<br />
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There are, of course, a few holes in our photographic chronology. Obviously, there are not photos to be found from before the mid-19th century, although I hold out hope of a painting or drawing surfacing at some point (It <i>could</i> happen - an 1860s folk painting of my parents' 1830s mill and miller's house in Maryland turned up a few years ago on the Antiques Roadshow). <br />
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In terms of more recent decades, we have no images from the 1920s,'70s, '80s and '90s. So, if any Cavanaghs, Newells, Miles, or Zieglers out there stumble on this page, please drop me a line. I need to complete my collection.<br />
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My new favorite TV show comes courtesy of one my favorite 70s/80's music acts - Daryl Hall (aka the guy from Hall & Oates without the bitchin' mustache). <br />
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Happily, the show is a far cry from Vanilla Ice goes Amish or the other celeb-renovation shows that pepper the cable landscape. In terms of love for 18th century buildings, Daryl Hall is the real deal. He has previously done some spectacular work on other historic properties in New England, including rescuing, moving, and restoring two other early American homes that were featured on his <a href="http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/" target="_blank">Live From Daryl's House</a> web show (and profiled on Episode 9 of the Essex House season of This Old House).<br />
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On his DIY show, Daryl is restoring and attaching an addition to a spectacular 18th century house in Sherman, CT. Like me, he has a very, very (very, very) specific vision for how the house should look, and this vision is founded in a respect and understanding of 18th century New England construction and design. He eschews shortcuts, respects the craftsmanship of the materials (old and new) being used in his project, and understands that modern conveniences and antique homes can co-exist quite amicably. In short (and said using my best Daryl Hall voice), I dig it.</div>
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Of course, the show contains the requisite coterie of interesting characters - the guitar-tech turned project supervisor, and the gravel-voiced carpenter. Refreshingly, though, every one of them actually seems to know their stuff, and is invested in the project as an artisan, rather than a reality show fame-seeker.</div>
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Having watched the first seven episodes, it has been fun to watch Daryl deal with many of the same challenges that I have been through - especially when he is trying to source appropriate 18th century materials. Maybe not surprisingly, he has turned to several of the same sources that I use in our restoration, including Ball and Ball and Historic Housefitters. Of course, Daryl's rock star budget probably explains why he can do a restoration in one television season, while mine has been thirteen years (and counting . . .), but I will suspend my jealousy in the interest of being entertained.<br />
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EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-65112307061383115322014-05-02T11:16:00.002-04:002014-05-02T11:16:56.993-04:00House Cousins and Old Photos<div style="text-align: justify;">
Last week I got one of those great, out-of-the-blue emails that I always hope the old house gods will send my way. Given how happy I was a a couple of years ago when we got a brief visit from a man who had worked as a gardener on our property in the 1940s, you can imagine how exciting it was to hear from an honest-to-goodness direct descendant of Enos Kellogg, himself.<br />
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In keeping with the weird coincidences that have been the hallmark of our life in the Enos Kellogg Homestead, Enos great-times-five granddaughter is, like me, originally from Maryland, and actually used to live in the same town that I grew up in. </div>
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My "house cousin", as she aptly called herself, is the great, great, great, great, great granddaughter of Enos and Lydia Kellogg, and happened to come across this blog while doing genealogical research on her family.</div>
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Now, I had been trying in vain to track down modern day members of Enos' family for a while, harboring visions of them producing a diary, furniture from the house, stories, or old photos of the property (which was in the family until 1917). While no diaries or furniture surfaced, my new-found house cousin did have family stories and a number of photos, both of our house (labeled on the back as "Old Comstock Homestead, Norwalk, CT) and of family members, some of them the same people in our <a href="http://enoskellogghouse.blogspot.com/2012/11/victorian-photo-album-of-enos-kellogg.html" target="_blank">magically-returned-to-our-house Victorian photo album</a>.</div>
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Happily, even while spending all the livelong day working on the railroad, Walter appears to have maintained close enough ties to his family back in Norwalk that he kept and passed down some family pictures, which my house cousin very kindly scanned and sent to me.</div>
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The picture above is my favorite of the bunch. It<span id="goog_414068641"> is very likely the earliest picture that we have of the house. It's hard to see without zooming in, but in addition to the horse hitched up where our mailbox now stands, there is a man (Edwin Comstock?) holding a jaunty walking stick at the front gate, and a woman (Emma Comstock?) in period clothes standing next to the house. When I blew up the picture in Photoshop, I was able to see that the raised panel Dutch door on the front of our house today was in place back then (it is 18th century, and probably original to the house). Even better, the top half of the door is open in the photo, and there is a girl of maybe nine or ten peering our from inside the house. So cool. </span></div>
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The photo also shows the evolution of the entry hall on the side of our house. Until I saw this image, I never know that the front half of this small addition was originally just a covered entrance, exposed to the elements on two sides. Boring to everyone else, fascinating to me. And don't even get me started on the fact that I can see that the windows were 9 over 6 sashes. Earth shattering information. </div>
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The second house picture (below), which was very, very faded before I Photoshopped some clarity back into it, is quite a bit later. My guess is that this is from the 19-teens, perhaps around 1917 when the property was sold out of the Comstock family. By the time this picture was taken, the house seems to have been let go a bit. Vines cover the front porch and south side (note the one small vine growing up the side entrance of the house in the earlier photo above, and what it grew to be on the photo below). The windows have been replaced with 2 over 2 sashes (criminal!), and the shingles are beat to hell. </div>
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It is sort of sad to see the house in this state. Such is the ebb and flow of old houses, though. We bought the house at another trough in its existence, and today it looks great. Happily, it seems that every thirty years or so this house has been lucky enough to have someone come along who loves it and brings it back from the precipice. Kelloggs built it, Comstocks, Mittendorfs, and Newells preserved it, and now it is the Harringtons' turn. It's all a bit Sysephean, but how do you not fight the good fight for a house like this?</div>
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Aaaaaanyway, my house cousin also has 19th century photographic portraits of a number of Comstocks, including the three brothers (Walter, Edwin and Williams) who, in several combinations, owned the property between 1864 and 1917. Even better, the photos are labeled, so I'm hoping that they will serve as a Rosetta Stone for our photo album, allowing us to identify who is who in our pictures.</div>
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There also is a photo of an old woman labeled "Great Grandma". Taken by E.T. Whitney right here in Norwalk, probably in the 1860s or 70s, this photo is either of Esther Comstock (Enos' daughter) or, more probably, Mary Dibble Comstock, Esther's daughter-in-law. Both women lived in our house. I'll post more on that mystery separately as it is fairly interesting (in the way that all of this esoterica is interesting to me and one or two other people on earth). I'll even weave in famed Civil War photographer Matthew Brady and arsenic poisoning for your reading pleasure.</div>
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So, a big week for information on our old house. If any other Comstock diaspora from our house are out there, come on down and share your stories. I'll make you famous to my audience of eleven readers, and share some pictures of the ole' family homestead with you.</div>
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Nothing new here at the Enos Kellogg Homestead. I just really liked this photo of the house that our friend Neeraj took a few weeks ago, and thought I would put it up as we wait for spring to arrive.EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-46174068548231131512013-12-11T22:06:00.000-05:002013-12-11T22:06:18.237-05:00The Ghost of Christmas Present<div style="text-align: justify;">
So, one of the byproducts of allowing a TV production crew to film on our property was the chance to pick the brains of the psychic mediums who were the stars of the show, which Jenny did.</div>
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All three of the mediums were super nice, and loved our house. Two of them had lived previously in early American homes, so they were particularly appreciative. Unfortunately, only one of the three had impressions of the "psychic energy" of our house. The other two were too focused on the readings that they were doing for the show. So, for what it's worth, here is what a professional psychic medium has to say about the house:</div>
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In our downstairs guest room, which was being used as the hair and makeup room the for the shoot, the psychic very matter-of-factly communed with the spirit of an old woman named Martha who lived (lives?) there. She apparently was the relative of one of the past owners, and that was her room. Although the psychic said that Martha was friendly and happy, she apparently was something of a neat freak, and was dispensing suggestions as to where the makeup woman should hang up the jacket that she had left sitting on the floor. Martha also seems to have a strong design sensibility, as she told the psychic that the floor should be wood (it is currently wall to wall carpet) and that the walls should not be painted their current bright shade of Baltimore Oriole orange. I have to say, Martha is my kind of spirit. The mess in the guest room annoys the hell out of me, and I am always nagging Jenny to put away the stuff that she "temporarily" stores there. I've also been on a campaign to rip out the carpet and install the same antique wide plank oak flooring that is in the rest of the house. I think that my vote and Martha's outweighs Jenny's, right?</div>
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Interestingly, when we had an architectural historian look at that room when we restored it seven years ago, his thought that it was most likely added onto the house in the very early 19th century for a mother-in-law, or spinster aunt or sister. It was too nice for a hired man's room, but not really part of the family area of the main house. I'll have to dig around to see if there is a record of a Martha in the house. I don't recall one, but you never know. In any case, the guest room henceforth will be Martha's room. My sister has already told me that she will never sleep in the room. I'm sure that Martha would prefer that she not intrude, anyway.</div>
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The medium also "saw" a nursery in the space between the two upstairs bedrooms that used to be a small third room, that indeed very likely was a nursery. She also had visions of a black woman who served as a nanny in the house, although that would have been very unlikely based on what I know about who lived here long ago. But what do I know? I had never even noticed Martha before.</div>
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Anyway, the psychic seems to have dug the vibe of our house, which is really all that we could have hoped for. It certainly beats the alternative, which would have been them telling Jenny that there was a bad energy about the house, at which point she would have begun packing our belongings.</div>
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Interesting day today at the Enos Kellogg Homestead. A TV production crew is in the barn filming a development pilot for a show tentatively titled Seance. This is a reality show that brings psychic mediums (media?) in to give readings on groups of people.</div>
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The production crew thought that a barn would provide the right atmosphere, and a friend of a friend sent them our way. After a full day yesterday setting up lights and decor, they are busily filming the episode today. Which means three mediums, the people being "read", and the entire production crew are running around the property today. Interesting to watch what goes into a reality show firsthand, but it will be nice to get the property back to ourselves tomorrow.</div>
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Since this pilot is something that will be used to shop around the show to networks, I doubt that it will ever see the light of day (even if the show is picked up by a network), but on the off chance that you think you recognize our barn when flipping channels in the future, you just might be right!</div>
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I'll do a more detailed involved post later on, but here are a few photos of the finished structure, including some interiors from Thanksgiving Day, when we officially put the barn back into use with dinner for 35 inside.<br />
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Happily, the barn crew all signed their names on gable-end rafters, for someone to discover in another century or so.<br />
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Hang four doors, roof the rear of the barn, install the gable end windows, install the final layer of flooring and finish staining the structure.<br />
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Tantalizingly close.EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-87566798091950720532013-10-16T15:23:00.000-04:002013-10-16T15:23:50.268-04:00All New Barn Restoration Photos<div style="text-align: justify;">
Just a quick photo-heavy post to update on progress on the barn.</div>
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We reached a milestone last week - the first metal going into the barn, as the framers started nailing up siding. The timber frame is fastidiously old-fashioned, held together only by wooden pegs and sound engineering.</div>
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As of today, all sides are wrapped in the first course of rough cut siding. This will be followed by a second exterior layer of smoother ship-lapped siding. The roof decking (more rough cut 12" boards) is about half installed, and will be followed with cedar shingles on the front and metal roofing on the rear. </div>
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The first layer of 1" flooring is down, and will be followed by a second layer of the same.</div>
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60" wrought iron hinges for the big doors should arrive next week.</div>
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We're in the home stretch.</div>
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We've reached that phase of the restoration process where it becomes hard to see progress. Which is not to say that significant progress is not being made. It is just much harder to notice a tenon repair, the whittling of 150 wooden trunnels (pegs), or the cutting of floor joists than it is to see an entire wall or roof removed in a single day.</div>
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What has been a welcome site is the completion of the roof removal. Our barn's roof has given me nightmares since the day we moved in. Back in 2001, it already had a few holes in it, courtesy of a branch that impaled the barn on the previous owners' watch. Several years back, we had an expensive tarp installed over the roof to keep the water out, and while it was effective, it looked like hell, and I cringed every time I saw it from the Merritt Parkway. Being the old house obsessive that I am, I also hated seeing the miserable rafter replacement that had been inflicted on the barn in the 1980s - with badly-installed dimensional lumber marring the beauty of the timer frame. Seeing a huge trunk of Superstorm Sandy-felled tree sitting astride the barn for the past six months also made me a little ill. But, no more. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The new roof will be returned to the 12:12 pitch of the 18th century original (as evidenced by the last remaining piece of original roof plate), will include unmilled logs with one flattened face as rafters, and will be free of modern dimensional lumber. Sadly, it will be too expensive to install cedars shingles on the roof, so we will have to go with a metal roof for the time being. Hopefully we can re-roof once we win Powerball. Otherwise, I give whoever owns the house in 100 years permission to curse my name for using a historically inappropriate roofing material. Fair is fair.</div>
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Another exciting step forward is the arrival of the 30 foot log that will become our new tie beam for the east bent of the barn. It appears that this particular piece of lumber has long been a problem for the barn - probably as a result of the northeast corner of the barn sinking over the years. The original beam was no longer in place, having been replaced probably in the 19th century by a recycled 18th century hewn timber that appears to have served previously as a floor joist-carrying beam in another early structure. This beam, too, failed at some point - cracking in half at its mid point. To remedy that issue, another beam was sistered to the broken tie-beam - bolted along its top face. With a newly-poured footer under the northeast corner of the barn hopefully eliminating the centuries old problem with the tie beam, we have removed the old replacements, and are going to install a new beam. </div>
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While I knew that the beam had to be hand hewn to honor the history of the barn, finding an appropriate 30 foot log proved to be a challenge. Once again, though, my friend Clint Thorn came to the rescue, tracking down a huge, straight and relatively knot-free red oak log through one of his friends. Delivered two weeks ago, Renard and his crew have hewn about 3/4s of the log so far. The next step will be installing the new beam onto the east bent of the barn (which is currently lying on the ground) and then re-raising the entire bent. That should be cool.</div>
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Finally, I should point out the beautiful dry laid fieldstone foundation that is now partially in place around the barn. The masons that Renard recommended are awesome. We returned from vacation to find restored foundations on more than half of the barn - built just as they originally were 230 years ago, with stones from our property laid carefully with no mortar.</div>
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More photos to come as work progresses further. Hopefully I will also have a "barn raising" video of the east bent going up in the next week or so. Fingers crossed.EnosKelloggHomesteadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02472194871089144207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33132424.post-2340564100545734422013-08-12T21:42:00.000-04:002013-08-12T21:45:19.364-04:00Enos Kellogg Barn Restoration, Chapter II<div style="text-align: justify;">
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As illustrated by the four inch layer of white oak chips in our driveway, restoration work on the Enos Kellogg Barn continues to roll along.</div>
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The wood chips are result of the hand-hewing of a new corner post for the barn. No sissy lumber mills for this post - only old school, bad-ass chopping axe and broad axe work. For the three major timbers that need replacement, our barn restorers are starting with actual logs of white oak (bark and all) and creating the timbers using the same tools and techniques that were used when the barn was first constructed in the 1780s.<br />
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Work on the new corner post is complete, with the hewing finished, and all mortises and tenons cut. One timber down, two more to go.</div>
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I have to say, it is truly fascinating to watch an experienced framer hew a timber. Is it wrong that I sit in a comfy lawn chair and spectate while the framers are working their buts off with a broad axe? At least I have the decency not to hold a cold beer while I'm sitting and watching. That makes it ok, right?</div>
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In addition to the corner post, the flooring system for the east bay of the barn is almost complete. New footings have been poured, ground sills cut and installed, floor supports laid out, and most of the joists cut and installed. Particularly satisfying was seeing the center post that had been swinging freely in the barn since we purchased the property in 2001 (and probably for many more decades before that) finally mortised into a solid piece of white oak.</div>
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I even tried my hand at metal detecting to see if could find any artifacts before the floor goes in. This experiment was hugely successful if you are a fan of 20th century nails, of which I found close to a hundred. In terms of interesting finds, though, it was a complete bust. I'm hopeful that I will have more luck in the west bay once the concrete pad in that area is removed. That was the animal bay, and likely had no floor in the 18th century. I'm hoping that someone had the decency to leave a coin or two in the dirt a couple of hundred years ago.</div>
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At this point, work on the east bay is as finished as it can be until we get the 30 foot white oak log that will be hewn into the horizontal tie beam that runs from corer to corner at the gable end of the barn. That will be a monstrous amount of axe work.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "&apos","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">This "second" Enos Kellogg House, at 296 Carter Street in New Canaan, is located just under two miles from us. As Ponus Avenue and Carter Street were essentially one continuous roadway prior to the construction of the Merritt Parkway, this property was literally up the street from our house. </span><br />
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In 1819, Enos held a note on the property from Abijah, and it appears that Abijah defaulted on the note. He did, however, continue to live in the house, probably until his death. By 1830, Enos' daughter, Hannah, also lived in the house, along with her husband, Minot Ayres. Master Bije, who never married, continued to reside in the house along with the Ayres family. <br />
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Upon Enos' death in 1832, the property transferred to Hannah. Enos also left Hannah $1200 to buy out an interest in the property held by her cousin, Matthew Kellogg.<br />
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Here is a video tour of the house from when it was for sale a few years ago. Beautiful.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Amazingly, a "third" Enos Kellogg House is also still standing in New Canaan. This property is at 166 White Oak Shade. Also known as White Feather Farm, the then 17 acre property came into Enos' possession when Ezra Seymour Jr. defaulted on a mortgage note held by Enos in 1813. It appears that Enos held a mortgage on an additional four acres, but Ezra's father bailed him out by paying off the debt on the four acres. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It seems that Enos built the house on the property at some point between 1813 and 1830 (and more likely than not after 1820), probably as a residence for his orphaned nephew, Matthew Kellogg, whom he raised in our original recipe Enos Kellogg House. Matthew's father was Enos' brother, Isaac Kellogg, a soldier in the Revolutionary war who served in Lt. Carter's Company in 1776.<br />
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So, there you have the two "other" Enos Kellogg Houses. While Enos never lived in either one, he owned both at the time of his death, and likely built one of them.</span></div>
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For anyone who is interested, I thought that I would post a brief overview of what restoring our c.1784 barn will actually entail. For the sake of clarity, I will break out the work by each of the three barn bays.</div>
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For those who don't know, timber framed barns are divided into bays, which are the areas between each bent. A bent is a portion of the barn frame that consists of two or more vertical posts, joined together at the top by a horizontal tie beam or girt. When you picture a barn raising, you probably picture a bent being lifted up. This scene from the movie Witness (which, by the way, is an awesome movie, ranking in my Harrison Ford hierarchy behind only the Star Wars and Raiders trilogies [sorry, I know that there were four Indiana Jones movies, but I prefer to live in a world where Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does not exist] should give you an idea of what I mean.</div>
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Our barn, like most traditional Connecticut barns of the 18th century, is comprised of four bents and three bays. The center bay was used for threshing grain. As such it would have had a wood floor to provide a clean, hard surface for threshing (see picture at right). While our floor is long gone, one floor support and a handful of joist mortises in an original ground sill provide evidence of its original design. We are restoring the threshing floor to its original configuration based on this evidence. </div>
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One side bay (the west bay, in our barn) was the animal bay, used for housing cattle and sometimes other animals. We know which side was the animal bay in our barn by the presence of three cattle doors at the west gable end of the barn, and by the cattle stanchions (used to hold a cow's head during milking) that remain in place in our barn. The third bay (the east bay on our barn) was the mow, used for storing hay and other animal fodder.</div>
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Replace 30' tie beam with new hewn white oak post</div>
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Replace rotted, broken and missing nailers with white oak salvaged from rafters</div>
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Replace all ground sills with milled white oak</div>
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Replace all roof plates with milled hemlock</div>
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Tenon repair on northeast post</div>
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Replace rotted bottom of southwest post with oak salvaged from east bay</div>
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Tenon repair on centereast post</div>
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Replace southeast post with new hewn white oak post</div>
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Replace missing centerwest post with new hewn white oak post</div>
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Replace missing nailers with white oak salvaged from rafters</div>
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Replace all ground sills with milled white oak</div>
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Replace all roof plates with milled hemlock</div>
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Install new swinging doors on north and south sides of barn using 60" forged iron strap hinges and pintles</div>
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<li>Likely tenon repair on southwest post</li>
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Replace all missing or damaged bracing</div>
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Replace all siding with shiplapped, wide plank tongue-and-groove boards over rough sawn boards</div>
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Replace all rafters, restoring roof profile to original 12:12 pitch</div>
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Install metal roof over 12" rough cut boards (sadly we can't afford to put up cedar shingles) </div>
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Install wide plank floor, with necessary supports and joists</div>
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Rebuild dry-laid fieldstone foundation</div>
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Wow, that's a hell of a lot of work for 2 months. The overriding philosophy is to save as much of the original fabric of the barn as possible, and to restore the barn to its appearance c.1784, using appropriate materials, tools, and techniques, with particular attention paid to replicating the joinery methodologies employed when the structure was originally built. Wish us luck.</div>
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At last! Restoration work on the Enos Kellogg Barn is finally under way.</div>
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While we had been able to nurse our much-neglected 18th century barn along since purchasing the property in 2001, a chance meeting with a giant white pine tree during Super Storm Sandy last October left us with the choice of either undertaking a major restoration project or risking the collapse of the structure.<br />
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While simple economics might have argued for the latter course of action, we simply couldn't stomach the thought of seeing the old barn give up the ghost on our watch. So, with some advice from the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation (which runs an amazing <a href="http://www.connecticutbarns.org/" target="_blank">barn preservation program</a>), we set out last fall to find someone to bring our barn back to life. Trying to juggle finding the right person to do the work, negotiating with our insurance company over the Sandy damage, applying for a barn stabilization grant, and scraping up enough of our own funds to get the project going was not particularly fun. Among the lowlights were having the first timber framer that we talked to flake out on the project right before it was scheduled to begin, and getting turned down for the barn grant due to a lack of funding for privately owned structures.<br />
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Happily, however, our barn mojo has improved dramatically in the past month. First, we caught an exceptionally lucky break when one of the timber framers that the CT Trust had recommended most highly had an unexpected opening in his schedule due to the postponement of another job. So, Renard Thompson and his crew (Lyla, Sam and Ben) were able to start work only a week after coming out to do a full evaluation of the structure in mid-June.</div>
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Renard is a walking encyclopedia of timber framing, having done beautiful restorations of many timber frame structures around Connecticut (take a look at his website - <a href="http://bringbackbarns.wordpress.com/#" target="_blank">Bring Back Barns</a>). In the two-and-a-half weeks that they have been on site, I have learned a ton about timber framing, in general, and our barn, in particular. Most interesting for me is confirmation that the barn is located on its original site (and not moved from somewhere else), and was constructed using tools and construction techniques consistent with the 1780s. So, in all probability, this barn is the original barn associated with our home, and it likely was built either concurrently with our house, or very shortly thereafter This makes its restoration all the more important in my eyes - we are extremely lucky to have both the original house and barn still standing as survivors after 230 years, and I see it as our duty to do what we can to help them endure for a few more centuries.</div>
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Our second lucky break came when we were trying find a source for white oak. Our barn was originally constructed almost entirely of this species of wood, which is ideal given its strength and rot resistance. Unfortunately, our project required quite a lot of new wood, most importantly to replace the rotted ground sills throughout the structure, and three particularly large pieces of oak to replace other posts and beams that were not salvageable. What I learned quickly is that big lengths of white oak are hard to find and are very expensive. Luckily, it occurred to me that our friend Clint Thorn might know of a good source. Clint is a master furniture maker, specializing in reproductions of some of the most beautiful pieces of furniture made in 18th century New England (check out his business <a href="http://theopentalon.com/" target="_blank">The Open Talon</a>). He harvests much of the wood for his projects right from his own farm. He, his wife, Kim, and their two sons live in Goshen, CT, on an idyllic farm that also houses their dairy operation (including cheese making and the crafting of amazingly delicious artisanal chocolates - check out their <a href="http://thorncrestfarm.net/" target="_blank">Thorncrest Farm & Dairy</a> website). Unbeknownst to me, they also had started a wood mill on their farm, and what material did they have available? White oak! And for a very attractive price. As I said, our barn luck clearly had improved.<br />
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So, with a team of experienced timber framing experts and a source for wood, our restoration is moving along. So far, the crew has removed the majority of the roof, taken down the eastern bent of the barn where there was significant damage from the tree, poured new foundation piers for the eastern bay of the barn and prepared new sills and roof plates for that bay. They also have almost finished hewing a corner post for the northeast corner of the barn, which will replace the post that was broken by the falling tree. More details to come as the project progresses, but here are an array of photos of what has taken place so far.</div>
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