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Similar to Ellwood's, Lappin House, the home was designed and arranged with a spine corridor, and featured a free-standing centrally-located brick fireplace that separated the living room area from the dining room, similar to Case Study House 9 designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen.
The freestanding fireplace was designed to have two openings with a one-foot deep pit on the west side. Today the rear or second opening is unused. The chimney breast is of steel plate, with a plaster appliquéd, in a neutral gray finish. [2] This surface presents an interesting texture. The fireplace is of tan brick.
Cooking in an 1823 house would have involved using the fireplace and in the case of the Schencks a 10 plate stove and pipe. A "5 plate stove" or German Jamb stove [9] was a cast-iron free-standing stove developed in German speaking regions in the 1550s A.D.. However, it was used for heating the sleeping and sitting areas of the first floor of ...
A small, stone-walled partial cellar pit under part of the hall was reached through a trap door. A massive fireplace with timber lintel spanned most of the west wall. Around 1700, the West Parlor and West Chamber were added as a free standing structure framed on its own four corner posts.
The front hall features a fireplace, wood paneling that extends to the top of the doors, wood beams across the ceiling, and a stained glass chandelier. [2] Pocket doors divide the front hall from the front room. [2] The front room has wood paneling going halfway up its walls, as well as a large fireplace. [2]
The east wing contains the kitchen and a woodshed. It has seven-foot (2.1 m) plaster ceilings with walls finished in rough plaster. On the east wall is an early 19th-century cooking fireplace and baking oven with wooden Federal style mantel. The oven is behind two wooden doors. The doors have narrow casings with beaded Federal style backbands.