The Birthplace Emerges

Little by little the original structure is making its way through the clutter.

The weather is cooperating and this Saturday and Sunday were both beautiful – sunny with temperatures in the 40’s.

The building permit was issued this week and our good friends at Duke Power are scheduled to disconnect and reattach temporary service to a new pole in and around December 16 after the temporary pole is inspected.

Enough work has gone on at the house that we now have a clear picture of what stays and what goes. With this benchmark behind us, we’ve ordered a construction dumpster to be delivered Tuesday so that we can pick up the pace get the clutter removed over the holidays and before the first of the year.

J.O finished the measured drawings on Friday with very few anomalies.

The house overall is 22' x 26'. The bedroom where Eunice was born is 12’6” x 12'. The living room is 12' x 17'6". The front porch is 8 x 12.6 feet and the kitchen is 12’ 4” x 12’. The back porch measures 4' 11" deep and appears to have run the entire width of the house. There are 520 square feet of total heated space in the house

The most surprising development today was the discovery of an original exterior door frame from the living room to the back porch. We had assumed the smaller bathroom door was cut in when the bathroom was added, or was perhaps even a window that was expanded. Instead, we found an original doorframe clearly visible when the jam was removed.

Once the gypsum board in the bathroom was removed, we confirmed there was no window that had been covered when the bathroom addition was completed. It appears there was never a window on the south end of the living room, but instead a door leading to the back porch. We are working to confirm this with first hand accounts and perhaps once more gypsum board is removed in the living room we will be able to see the layout more clearly.

The newly discovered door jam and other images from this weekend have been added to the photo album.