The Cassidy House
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| Intro,
Construction
1888-1890,
Dining
room,
Doors 1,
Exterior,
Ext
Doors,
Fire
1905, Front
Doors
, History,
Interior,
Painting 1,
Painting 2,
Peek
In,
Pocket
Doors ,
Porch,
Roof,
Stained
Glass,
Staircase |
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Front view, before the
roof was redone in 2000.
The 7 ft wide by 4 foot high, half circle shaped stained
glass window we lost was in the middle just below the
peak.
We redecked the front porch the year before and
built temporary railing which will remain up until the missing trim can be
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Wood trim to left of front door.
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Residing
the 1st and 2nd floor south side
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After
(11/2002)
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2001 we finished rebuilding about 25 foot the south exterior
wall. That's the area primed white on the first floor (above,
right photo),
and the area directly above it. All of the primed wood is new
cedar siding, or as they call it here on the East Coast,
clapboard.
I make
that distinction because once during a progress report to the
Norwich Dangerous Buildings Committee, I made the mistake of
saying I was siding the house with 6 inch beveled cedar
siding. All they heard was siding, and automatically assumed
vinyl! In the Midwest where I come from, cedar siding is
wood!
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12/2002 Winter
View
The old girl is starting to look like a real home again.
Even though the paint is only primer, it certainly perks
up the place. All of the fancy trim and turned
posts were removed as part of the four week long project
to rebuild the roof rafters and beams. We won't
replace them until after all of the other exterior work
is finished.
We started to
rebuild the porch roof in late October, but had to quit
last week because of the snow.
All of the rafters have been sistered with new
wood and the beams along the edge replaced.
One carpenter did all of the work.
He was able to maneuver the 25 feet long beams
into place using what he called a come-a-long, which
was a type of pulley device.
I’m not sure if that is a Yankee term or not.
It is not one I ran into when I lived in Missouri or
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2002 View
of the porch from the Maple Grove side.
Next
year we will have to decide whether or not to rebuild
the wooden Yankee gutters. On one hand, the old ones
were so rotten that it doesn’t seem wise to rebuild
them. On the other hand, newer gutters will look out of place.
Once we finish painting the house, the porch roof
will be covered with a vinyl mesh material that is then
covered with a barn red dyed liquid product.
If we can figure out how to make the roof
covering continue into the gutters thus blocking the
water from getting up under the wood, then rebuilding
the Yankee gutters is viable.
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November 2006 View from the Maple Grove side.
The first two
floors are painted, but we we still haven't replaced the
temporary porch posts and railing. Well, at least
there is a railing on the steps. The paint on the
walls cheers the place up. It seems everything
takes at least 3 times as long as we expect. |
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View out 2nd floor front
windows,
across Washington St.
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View out 3rd
floor rear window.
The river is just on the other aside of the farthest house.
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Winter view
from the same window
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