Hull Family Home and Farmstead - Table of
Contents
Garret and Basement -
Restoration from 2004-2018
Hull Family Home and Farmstead
5976 Genesee
Street, Lancaster, NY
Hull
Family Home and Farmstead - Official Website
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![]() 2004 photo - Historian John Conlin leads a tour of the house - Garret At the ridge (top) there is a forty foot long single hewn ridgetree into which the ends of of each pair of log rafters is pinned in a mortise and tenon joint ... The ridgetree or rooftree is an 18th century structural feature transplant ![]() 2004 photo - Historian John Conlin's tour - Garret Horizontal purlins under the rafters supported by braced purlin posts which extend below to the 2nd floor and into the basement on top of stone posts.. ![]() 2011 photo - Garret Horizontal purlin under the rafters supported by braced purlin posts which extend below to the 2nd floor and into the basement on top of stone posts. ![]() 2011 photo - Garret Rafters are pinned in a mortise and tenon joint into the ridgetree ... Note reconstructed Federal style oval window and original foot-wide pine floor boards ... At the right, note horizontal purlins under the rafters supported by braced purlin posts. ![]() 2011 photo - Garret Onondaga limestone wall. When the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier [now the Preservation Buffalo Niagara] purchased the Hull House in 1992, there was a rectangular window in the space ... Examination indicated that there was a Federal style oval window originally ... This is a oval window reconstruction, as is the window on the opposite end of the attic. |
Basement![]() 2011 photo - Basement Steep, narrow staircase ![]() 2004 photo - Historian John Conlin's tour - Basement Door leads to backyard ![]() 2004 photo - Historian John Conlin's tour - Basement pillar support Onondaga limestone pillar ![]() 2011 photo - Basement pillar support Onondaga limestone pillar that is the base for purlins on the first, second and attic stories ... Door to larder (a room or large cupboard for storing food.) ![]() 2011 photo -Basement pillar support Onondaga limestone pillar detail ... The rounded corners of the stone indicate that these were pieces probably found lying on the ground, i.e., these were not quarried rocks. ![]() 2004 photo - Historian John Conlin's tour - Basement beehive oven and cooking hearth At left, behind closed door: Beehive oven ... At right: Cooking hearth ![]() 2004 photo - Historian John Conlin's tour - Basement beehive oven and cooking hearth Beehive oven door open ... Bottom section of the beehive oven is for burning wood, the heat from which rises to the upper beehive oven section ... Floor needs replacement; mortar pointing is needed; hearth needs work. ![]() 2004 photo - Historian John Conlin's tour - Basement beehive oven Ceiling of the beehive oven ![]() 2004 photo - Historian John Conlin's tour - Basement cooking hearth Note the original three foot long wrought iron cooking crane ![]() 2011 photo - Basement beehive oven and cooking hearth Replaced lath work ... New Eastern white pine foot-wide floor boards ... Partially restored cooking hearth ... At far left is an Onondaga limestone pillar that is the base for purlins on the first, second and attic stories ![]() 2011 photo - Basement beehive oven and cooking hearth ![]() 2011 photo - Basement cooking hearth Restored fireplace surround ... The new wood in the center of the mantel bottom fills in a gap in the board ... The Onondaga limestone fireplace wall has been repointed ... Note the original three foot long wrought iron cooking crane. ![]() 2018 photo - Basement Lathing on wall at left now plastered and painted ... Beehive oven and cooking hearth fully restored ![]() 2018 photo - Basement beehive oven ![]() 2018 photo - Basement beehive oven Beehive closed door now painted ![]() 2018 photo - Basement cooking hearth Wrought iron cooking crane in upper right ![]() 2018 photo - Basement Reproduction sheet metal reflector oven ![]() 2018 photo - Basement Reproduction sheet metal reflector oven |
Larder Larder: a room or large cupboard for storing food ![]() 2018 photo - Basement larder Wooden wall not original ... Note bottom of photo which is enlarged below: ![]() 2018 photo - Basement larder Original stepping stone on the basement floor ![]() 2018 photo - Basement larder Onondaga limestone walls ... Detailed below: ![]() 2018 photo - Basement larder Onondaga limestone wall |