The
Cassidy House
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Interior |
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Construction
1888-1890,
Dining
room,
Doors 1,
Exterior,
Ext
Doors,
Fire
1905, Front
Doors
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Interior,
Painting 1,
Painting 2,
Peek
In,
Pocket
Doors ,
Porch,
Roof,
Stained
Glass,
Staircase |
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Parlor light fixture.
The
balls covering the light bulbs are glass beads on a wire mesh
frame. You might wonder why there is insulation on an
interior ceiling. Our policy is: If we expose it, we
insulate it. If the house ever does become a bed and
breakfast, this will provide sound insulation as well.
And now, when many rooms are nothing but exposed studs, many
interior wall are virtually outside walls and
need
to be protected from the cold.
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Parlor fireplace.
This isn't a working fireplace. It seems the Victorians
like fireplaces so much they installed them everywhere,
whether or not they worked. This one just sits against the
wall in the parlor. Note the 8 mirrors on top.
Light from the fixture shown above reflects in the glass.
There are actually 3 working fireplace on the
first floor, each one more ornate than this one. The main hall
fireplace has columns and carved gargoyles. Upstairs in the
bedroom above the parlor, there is a smaller non-working
fireplace. The fireplace in Mrs. Cassidy's room has
blue fairy tiles all around it. Dr. Cassidy's bedroom did not
have a source of heat. He believed that the cold would help
keep him healthy. There was a pipe that ran off of Mrs.
Cassidy's fireplace that provided some heat though.
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Hall wash basin
In case someone needed to wash up when the
bathroom was occupied, this wash basin in the 2nd floor main hall, served the purpose. The backsplash and counter are
marble. The china basin is trimmed with morning glory flowers banded in metal.
I find this interesting because my first name is Gloria. The basin
is model number 774 made by the J. L. Mott Iron Works, New York. It
appears in their 1898 catalog. The catalog has been reprinted under
the name Victorian Plumbing Fixtures.
Some of the faucets in the house appear to have been silver plated
originally. You can just see a bit of the old silver in the main
bathroom.
Around the corner, there is a closet
that held the slop sink. The maids used the sink to wash their mops. The
china basin lies in the attic broken in two pieces, but the wooden water tank is still in
place. A tug on the tank's cord dropped water into the
sink.
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The 2nd floor bathroom
The
family's bathroom is on the second floor. The servants must have used the
bathroom in the basement.We
still use Dr. Cassidy's tub. Eventually we will paint the outside
a high gloss dark green, perhaps with metallic gold legs. The color should
go with the walls, which are paneled half way up with stained bead board.
This is the only operational bathroom.
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An upstairs bedrooms.
The painted woodwork is a nice change from all
of the stained woodwork in the house. There's a small porch on the outside
of the left-hand window, but the only way to it is through the
window. My guess is that it was built that way to minimize taxes,
since during Victorian times, some communities calculated property taxes
based on a count of a house's doors.
We plan
on replacing the window with white double insulated glass french doors.
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