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SM-7A

Sotterley Field Hand's Quarter (Slave Cabin)

Architectural Survey File

This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse-

chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National

Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation

such as photographs and maps.

Users should be aware that additional undigitized material about this property may be found in on-site

architectural reports, copies of HABS/HAER or other documentation, drawings, and the “vertical files” at

the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft

versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a

thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research

project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment.

All material is property of the Maryland Historical Trust.

Last Updated: 01-06-2004

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SM-7A SOTTERLEY FIELD HAND'S QUARTER Hollywood Private, open to the public circa 1830

This single unit log house was built to shelter

at least one slave family. It has been renovated and

furnished as part of the museum, representing the life of

the field hands. Its features are typical of slave houses,

including log construction and design, earthen floor, and

small windows and doorways. The walls are of hewn logs,

dovetailed where they are joined at the corners, with

exterior wall posts of cedar positioned at regular intervals

as buttresses. At one end is an exterior chimney of brick

with a fieldstone base. According to an elderly informant who

who lived on the farm, separate "bedrooms" were created

in the single first floor room by suspending blankets from

the exposed joists. The architectural evidence shows that

the loft was also divided into two chambers •

Survey No. SM-?A

MARYLAND INVENTORY OF Maryland Historical Trust H

Magi No.

H F ISTORIC PROPERTIES

State istoric Sites Inventory orm DOE _yes no

1. Name (indicate preferred name)

historic

Slave House at Sotterley and/or common

2. Location

street & number Sotter ley Road

city, town Hollywood

state Maryland

3. Classification Category ---X- district-- building(s) _structure _site _object

Ownership -X- public _private _both Public Acquisition _in process _ being considered ~not applicable

_vicinity of

county

Status -X- occupied _ unoccupied _ work in progress Accessible _!__ yes: restricted _yes: unrestricted _no

_not for publication

congressional district 5

St. Mary's

Present Use _ agriculture _commercial _ educational _ entertainment _ government _ industrial _military

x _museum _park _ private residence _religious _ scientific _ transportation _other:

4. Owner of Property (give names and mailing addresses of ~ owners)

name Sotterley Mansion Foundation, Inc.

street & number p • 0 · Box 6 7 telephone no.: {301) 373-2280

city, town Hollywood state and zip code MD 20636

5. Location of Legal Description

courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. St. Mary's County Courthouse liber 117

street & number folio 314

city, town Leonardtown state MD

&. Representation in Existing Historical surveys

m~ Historic American Building Survey

date 1953 x _federal _state _county _local

,>e>sltory for survey records Library of Congress

city, town Washington state D.C.

7. Description

Condition X- excellent _good _fair

_ deteriorated _ruins _unexposed

Check one -X- unaltered _altered

Check one _x_ original site _moved date of move

Survey No. SM- 7 A

Prepare both a summary paragraph and a general description of the resource and its various elements as it exists today.

Contributing Resource Count 1

The Slave House at Sotterley is located south of the main house on a narrow strip of flattened ground between a deep ravine and an old road which extends from the plantation's agricultural outbuildings to the Patuxent River. The Slave House is said to have been one of about five such houses located along the road between this site and the river.

The Slave House dates to the second quarter of the nineteenth century -perhaps around 1840. The one-and-a-half story, one room house measures 18 feet by 16 feet and is built of 4 1 /2" to 5" thick hewn and sawn pine plank walls joined at the corners with ordinary square notches. The thin interstices between the logs are chinked with clay and mortar. At the time of construction, two earthfast, skinned cedar posts, hewn flat on only one surf ace, were set outside each wall and pegged into every plank to reinforce the structure's walls and prevent buckling. The pegs were split, wedged inside the posts and planks and then cut off flush both inside and out. The tops of the posts were cut at an angle and nailed to the wall with mature machine cut nails.

The east elevation is sheathed with a layer of new board and batten siding attached with wire nails. The south elevation, also sheathed with board and batten, is all that remains of the original layer of sheathing added on all sides of the building around 1910. This was removed from all but the south elevation around 1950. The north elevation is covered with weatherboards which have been antiqued with a faux hewn finish and attached with wire nails.

The roof, oriented on a north/south axis, is sheathed with wood shingles now covered over with tar paper. Original pit-sawn shingle lath which survive in place are placed for 18" long shingles. Attic joists are lapped into the tops of the walls. The rafters sit on board false plates carried by the joists. The ends of the joists project beyond the wall surface of both longitudinal elevations and are sawn off at an angle. There are no nail holes in the joists to suggest that the eaves were boxed with fascias or soffits.

The west (main) elevation is pierced by a central entrance door measuring 5' X 2'11." The door swings out rather than into the room. The remnants of leather door hinges remain visible. There is an interior wall pocket for the door's original slide bar. Posts which serve as door jambs have been pegged into the ends of the logs where the door opening was cut. A six-light casement window abuts the southern door jamb. Originally shuttered, the plank shutter for this window has been removed and is stored on the interior of the building. The window, like all of those on the first floor, is finishe1

8. Significance Survey No. SM-7A

Period _ prehistoric _14~1499

Areas of Significanc--Check and justify below _ archeology-prehistoric _ community planning _ archeology-historic _ conservation

_landscape architecture_ religion _law _science

15~1599

_1600-1699 _1700-1799 _x_ 1800-1899 _1900-

agriculture _ economics ----X- architecture _ education

_ literature _ sculpture _ military _ social/

_art _ engineering _ music humanitarian _commerce _ exploration/settlement _ philosophy _ theater _ communications _ industry _ politics/government _ transpol"tation

_ invention _x_ other (specify) African Am. hist.

Specific dates none Builder/Architect unknown

check: Applicable Criteria: A B X C D and/or

Applicable Exception: ~A ~B ~C ~D E F G

Level of Significance: ~national !_state _!_local

Prepare both a summary paragraph of significance and a general statement of history and support.

The Slave House at Satterley is the last surviving example of worker housing on Satterley Plantation. Largely unchanged in appearance, the structure offers an evocative glimpse of the material lives of slaves in the decades just before the Civil War. Erected around 1840, the building dates to the ownership of Dr. Walter Hanson Stone Briscoe and his wife Emeline Dallam Briscoe.

The Slave House began as a home for slaves associated with the main plantation, possibly including people who did domestic work at the nearby owners' house as well as laborers in the fields of the home farm. Modest improvements were made soon after the Civil War, and further changes some thirty years later brought the house up to something approaching conventional standards for many Chesapeake rural workers. Several changes made at mid-twentieth century returned elements of the house to their nineteenth-century appearance without erasing much evidence of the people who lived in the house thereafter.

The building's location, the nature of the accommodation it provided, and its technological character are significant. Situated along an old road stretching from the plantation's agricultural outbuildings south of the house down to the Patuxent River, both the building site and the road were cut into sloping ground south of the field between the main house and the river. As a result, only the top of the house was visible to people living on the hill, and the mansion would not have been easily visible from the quarter. The general pattern of partial visibility can be recognized at other eighteenth and nineteenth-century Chesapeake plantations such as Carter's Grove in James City County and Prestwould in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.

Much of the building's size and substance are related to the development of what passed for model slave housing in the late antebellum era. Headroom in the single first-floor room is now 6'8", roughly what it probably was in the nineteenth century, and there has always been a usable attic. The present brick chimney appears original, and it would have been superior to the many wooden chimneys still used for much poor housing at mid-century. The frame is also entirely hewn and sawn, rather

9. Major Bibliographical References Survey No. SM-7A

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11. Form Prepared By Substance of form taken from "The Slave House at ~otterley near

name/tltleHollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland: Architectural Investigations and Recommendations" by Colonial Wllliamsbutg. Form prepared by

organization Elizabeth Hughes for Sotter ley Mans~p Foundation, Inc. June 199 6.

street & number P.O. Box 6 7 telephone (301) 373-2280

city or town Hollywood state MD 20636

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 supplement.

The survey and inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.

return to: Maryland Historical Shaw House 21 State C' e Annapo · , Maryland 21401 ~269-2438

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SM-7 A, Slave House at Sotterley Hollywood 7.1 Description

with unplaned trim attached with wire nails. These windows were installed around 1910.

The first floor of the south elevation is blind. An exterior brick chimney with a field stone base stands against this gable end wall. The brickwork consists of hardfired red brick laid in four- and five-course American bond with lime mortar in joints that taper back at their base. The brickwork steps out at the base and sits on a wide and rough platform of unworked brown sandstone intended to prevent the chimney from falling down the steep hillside to the south. The brick stack rises free of the gable since there is no attic fireplace.

The east elevation is pierced by a central vertical board door with horizontal battens and metal strap hinges. Posts which serve as door jambs have been pegged into the ends of the logs where the door opening was cut. The door sill is concrete. The door is flanked to the south by a six-light, casement window installed around 1910.

The north elevation is pierced by a c. 191 O six-light, casement window on the first floor. The eave is sheathed with weatherboard siding and is pierced by a window opening fitted with a hinged plank shutter.

The interior consists of one room with a hearth located at the south end and a stair in the northwest corner. Headroom in the first-floor room is now 6'8". The main floor was originally clay, although a wood floor was added in the early twentieth century and later removed. Around 1950, the clay floor was brought up nearly to the top of the sills.

The brick around the firebox is exposed and an iron lintel supports ordinary bricks laid as a flat arch above the opening. The opening measures 4'1" wide, 1 '1 O" deep, and 3'6" high. An iron trammel bar in the flue suggests that the fireplace was intended for work, including cooking, as well as heating, and there is no visible evidence for the fireplace being converted for use with a stove. A mantel shelf supported by curved brackets surmounts the fireplace opening.

Originally, a stair rose to the attic through an opening in the ceiling at the southeast corner. Cut marks for the stair opening remain visible in the ceiling. This was probably a ladder stair, passing above part of the fireplace. This stair was replaced by a stair in the northwest corner around 1870. The new stair consists of treads laid on rough stringers. Boards were nailed along the sides of the new stair to prevent people from falling, in the absence of a railing. Perhaps about this time a series of salvaged iron cloak pins were screwed into the adjoining joist, apparently to hang a cloth closing off the stair downstairs. Later, around 1950, a stack of marl and

SM-7A, Slave House at Sotter1ey Hollywood 7 .2 Description

clay mortar was inserted to support the lower end of the stair. All interior walls were whitewashed.

The attic was left unfinished, with rafters, roof collars, and shingle lath exposed. Where the stair formerly rose to the southeast corner of the loft, there is an enclosure which was created by nailing rough, unplaned boards to the side and top of a door frame hung with a board-and-batten leaf on cast-iron butt hinges. Once the old stair was torn out, the original stair enclosure was converted for use as a doorless closet. A hole drilled in the side of the stair at collar height may indicate that a cloth was hung along the back (east) slope to separate a small space there for privacy or storage. Like the old stair, the new stair was enclosed with a similar box constructed of thin, rough boards and hung with a door of the same character. A partition of similar thin, rough boards was built to separate two attic spaces, presumably to create two separate bedrooms upstairs.

SM-?A, Slave House at Satterley Hollywood 8. 1 Significance

than left partially unworked in the manner of some cheaper quarters. Still, for all its solidity, the house is constructed like agricultural buildings such as corn cribs, with plank walls unfinished inside and out. Likewise, the ceiling framing and attic flooring were visible below, and the main floor was originally clay, not wood. The building's form is conventional for single-room-plan houses built in the Chesapeake from at least the early eighteenth century until the Civil War.

The Slave House is technologically significant as the only known example of a construction method employing earthfast posts to provide stability to the building's plank walls and prevent them from buckling. This was a common method of building some houses even as substantial as Sotterley in the seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Chesapeake. Builders continued to use the technique for less expensive buildings well into the nineteenth century, though most now have disappeared.

Except for the reconfiguration of the attic stair, little about the Slave House changed following the Civil War. It was not until 1910, when Herbert L. Satterlee bought the property and transformed it into an estate for summer use by himself and his wife Louisa Morgan, J. P. Morgan's daughter, that limited improvements were made to the building. These improvements may have been made for an elderly black woman named Aunt Nanny or Annie Williams, born a slave. At that time a wood floor was added and first-floor window openings were sawn through the walls. By the 1920s, the house appears to have been vacant and unused.

The final significant change came around the middle of the twentieth century, presumably between 1947, when Mabel Satterlee Ingalls became heir to Sotterley, and 1961, when ownership was transferred to the Sotterley Mansion Foundation. no longer occupied by a tenant, the house was gently nudged back towards its assumed appearance as a slave quarter. Board-and-batten siding was removed from all but the chimney (south) end. Contemporary wood flooring and joists were removed from the downstairs, and a clay floor was brought up nearly to the top of the sills. Presumably it was at this time that an impressive stack of marl and clay mortar were inserted to support the lower end of the stair. Footprints in the mortar may represent part of this effort to show the environment of a slave family living at Satterley.

While public interest in American slavery grows, houses occupied solely by enslaved and free African-Americans in the decades immediately after the Civil War are rapidly disappearing. Few survive on their original sites, especially those that maintain visual relationships with contemporary fields, work buildings, and owner's houses -- in short, with much original context. Even rarer are such delicate survivals that are also normally open to the public. Those few that fulfill all these criteria tend to have been recently remodeled or vigorously restored in an effort to strip away evidence of subsequent use. Cleansed of accretions, these buildings have lost much

SM-?A, Slave House at Satterley Hollywood 8.2 Significance

of their character and ability to evoke their many years of use.

Beyond its considerable technological significance, then, the Sotterley Slave House is important as a building that illustrates the lives of generations of slaves and tree people who worked on this property, which now happens to be a museum. Much of its original form and character survive, but so do adjustments made by and for subsequent residents. Most of the evidence for continued use and modest change has not been scraped away.

At Sotterley, the main house, outbuildings, and landscapes have all reached their present state in many stages, not a single campaign. Each generation of occupants has left its mark here, making it far more complex and engaging than many historic house museums that have lost their messy authenticity by attempting to recreate an unblemished early state. While later and far simpler than the main house, the Slave House has a parallel history that is equally worth preserving.

SM-7 A, Slave House at Satterley Hollywood 9.1 Major Bibliographical References

Jeffrey Bostetter, Edward Chappell, Willie Graham, and Mark R. Wenger, 'The Slave House at Sotterley near Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland: Architectural Investigations and Recommendations," Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, September 27, 1995.

Elizabeth Harman, Telephone Conversation with Edward Chappell, September 5, 1995.

Mabel Satterlee Ingalls, "Aunt Nannie Williams Cabin," Undated memorandum in Sotterley Archives files.

Julia A. King, "Recommendations for the Management of Archaeological Resources at Sotterley," Unpublished report for Sotterley Mansion Foundation, Inc., February 1991.

Edward Knott, Conversation with Edward Chappell, May 24, 1995.

Richard Knott, Conversation with Carolyn Laray, September 25, 1995.

George McDaniel, Hearth and Home: Preserving a People's Culture Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1982.

"Old Satterly to be Opened," Baltimore Sun May 13, 1953.

Richard Rivoire, Measured Field Notes - August 1971, Maryland Historical Trust Site file.

Charles Irving Tucker, Telephone Conversation with Edward Chappell, September 26, 1995.

Anna Adams and Nettie Stevens, Conversation with Edward Chappell, May 25, 1995.

SM-7 A, Slave House at Satterley Hollywood 7.3 Description

Source: Jeffrey Bostetter, Edward Chappell, Willie Graham, and Mark A. Wenger, "The Slave House at Sotterley near Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland: Architectural Investigations and Recommendations," Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, September 27, 1995.

fig. 8. First-floor plan This and subsequent drawings are by Jeffrey Bostetter, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.


Source: Jeffrey Bostetter, Edward Chappell, Willie Graham, and Mark A. Wenger, "The Slave House at Satterley near Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland: Architectural Investigations and Recommendations," Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, September 27, 1995.

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Source: Jeffrey Bostetter, Edward Chappell, Willie Graham, and Mark R. Wenger, "The Slave House at Sotterley near Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland: Architectural Investigations and Recommendations," Colonial WiHiamsburg Foundation, September 27, 1995.

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Source: Jeffrey Bostetter, Edward Chappell, Willie Graham, and Mark A. Wenger, "The Slave House at Sotterley near Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland: Architectural Investigations and Recommendations," Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, September 27, 1995.

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Historic photo of Slave House with caption "Sotterley Thanksgiving, 1936." Source: Green Photo Album, Sotterley Mansion Foundation Archives.

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Historic photo of Alf red Edwards with caption "Alfred Edwards helped on Sotterley farm, ex-slave 'Uncle Alec' born a slave here and living on Sotterley in 1910." Source: Green Photo Album, Sotterley Mansion Foundation Archives .

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MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST STMA-7A

INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SITES SURVEY

HISTORIC

SOTTERLEY (FIELD HANDS' HOUSE)

AND/OR COMMON

. 'flLOCA TION STREET & NUMBER

CITY. !OWN

Hollywood VICINITY OF

STATE Maryland

DcLASSIFICA TION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS _DISTRICT _PUBLIC _OCCUPIED

_BUILDING(SI _PRIVATE -UNOCCUPIED

_STRUCTURE _BOTH _WORK IN PROGRESS

_SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBL~ _OBJECT _IN PROCESS _YES RESTRICTED

_BEING CONSIDERED _YES: UNRESTRICTED

_NO

DOWNER OF PROPERTY NAME

Satterley Mansion Foundation, Inc.

STREET & NUMBER

CITY. TOWN

Hollywood _ v1c1N1TY oF

llLOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE . REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC

Hall of Records

STREET & NUMBER

St. John's College Campus CITY. TOWN

II REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

COUNTY

St. Mary's

PRESENT USE

_AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM

_COMMERCIAL __ PARK

_EDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCI

_ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS

_GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC

_INDUSTRIAL _TRANSPORTATION

_MILITARY _OTHER

Telephone #:

Liber #: Folio #:

STATE I zip code Md.

STATE

H.A.B.S., Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. and Maryland Historic Sites

DATE Survey _FEDERAL -5TATE _COUNTY _LOCAL

DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Maryland Historical Trust

CITY. TOWN STATE

Annapolis, Md.

II DESCRIPTION

_EXCELLENT

_GOOD

_FAIR

CONDITION

_DETER I ORATED

_RUINS

_UNEXPOSED

CHECK ONE

_UNALTERED

__ALTERED

CHECK ONE

_ORIGINAL SITE

_MOVED DATE __ _

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

This structure has been recorded by Rick Rivoire and is on file in the Maryland

Historic Sites Survey,\ SM-7). Measured drawings were completed by Gary Ridgell and

Rick Rivoire and are deposited at the St. Mary's City Commission, St. Mary's City.

This structure displays the debarked vertical posts pegged into the log walls,

a feature that, according to oral interviews, was common to log slave cabins in

southern Maryland. Four other surviving houses with this feature are the slave

cabins at Riverview and at Blair's Purchase in St. Mary's County and at White Hall

Overseer's Quarter and at Gresham in Anne Arundel. According to McKinley Gant,

an elderly man in Calvert County (whose house was surveyed), these posts were in-

stalled to support the log walls. This feature is not known to have been found in

log cabins elsewhere in the South, indicating that the traditional building methods

among the slaves here were somewhat different.

CONTINUE"ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY

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_COMMUNICATIONS

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_INDUSTRY

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This slave cabin is one of the few in southern Maryland known to have been

inhabited by field hands and therefore serves as an example against which one can

compare quarters for house servants and field hands on other plantations and farms. fJ>' <J

This slave cabin has now been res9f>ted and is on display to the public. A

creditable effort was made to furnish the interior with original plantation artifacts

ith the result that it does convey an idea of how the field hand lived, a group of (L ~......._~ - / f

plantation people whome often ignored~ historic plantation sites. Unfortunately,

the paucity of materials, so neatly placed among so much empty space, conveys very

little of the life within this house as its occupants knew it. It should also be pointed

out that this house did not stand alone, but was a part of a much larger community, for

according to local blacks, this dwelling was but one of at least a dozen that stood in

a row descending toward the Patu.xent River •

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY

I) MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

CONTINUE ON SEP.AR.ATE SHEET IF NECESSARY

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VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE COUNTY

STATE COUNTY

mFORM PREPARED BY NAME I TITLE

ORGANIZATION DATE

STREET & NUMBER TELEPHONE

CITY OR TOWN STATE

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 Supplement.

The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: Maryland Historical Trust The Shaw House, 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 ( 301) 267-1438

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SLAVE QUARTERS AT SOTTERLEY SM- 7A SM-1A

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DESCRIBE THE PRESENT# ~D ORIGINAL (If known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

RECORDED DURING THE MHT-Sl"K:C ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY, 1971

Of interest because it is one of the few such ~ervants quarters remaining in southern Maryland. While not of the 18th century date associa with Satterley, it does represent a period of the farm's existence as a working farm.

Probably dating from the seccnddquarter of the 19th century, the cabin is severely plain and purely utilitarian. It is of log construction containing one room with a fireplace, dirt floor, exposed ceiling joists and corner stair on the first floor and a single large room in the attic. The downstairs room~s walls are sheathed with vertically hung boards. The corner stair has been moved from its original bocation flanking the fireplace (northeast corner) to a position in the southwest corner.

On the exterior the building is two bays in length on both sides (north and south elevations). The doors are original, but the windows are later alterations. Positioned alcng all walls are cedar posts, debarked and pinned into the logs as added support. The exterior is sheathed with vertically hung boards.

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A. Mansion and oldest pan dates trom about 1717. Outbuildings such as a custom house. spinning house, etc. wef'e located nearby on the south and west. Many of these have disappeared. but some remain. B. Smoke house - here hams are still smoked every year and hung for 18 months till ready for cooking. The brine trough is hollowed from a tree trunk. C. The non h gate house is original , the south one had burned and was reconstructed in 1914. Formerly used as quaners ' for household slaves. a family of 1 O was known to have lived in the north gate house.

D This log cabin was still inhabited in 191 O by a woman who had been born there a slave. E. Necessary - outdoor toilet in use before the introduction of modern plumbing. F. Modern house for garden tools. G. Sundial - English. made of slate. The pedestal made about 1925 ha.s the Plater. Briscoe and Satterlee coats-of.arms. H. Modern k itchens - buil t in 1914 approximately where an early kitchen probably stood. I. Stable - in all probability this was a brick warehouse. Glaze ended bricks in west end show, 1727.

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