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Hornbek Homestead Virtual Tour
Transcript
And we're back and again this is the original 1878 homestead home of Adeline Hornbek
Now, it has been, if you look on the bottom it's been put on a concrete foundation and
the local rocks plugged into that as the original wood foundation was rotting out
from the high water table swell in the winter time back in the 70s when this was done
and then the square box building on the left is the pump house as you'll see inside the pumps
where we are stepping into now is Adeline's bedroom that she shared with her daughter
and then the three boys are upstairs in their own separate bedrooms
the pictures you see on the wall now, that's Adeline Hornbek
We don't necessarily know when that picture was taken, what age she was at the time,
but I'd say guessing you know she's in her 30s 40s
and we just got that picture on the wall that's actually her first son Frank Harker
Again this is the bedroom and where were going to step off to next is the parlor
We have a couple of windows in the parlor on that side
and the old wood stove, the Beckwith stove
and then on this western wall we have a period newspaper actually from 1878 the year this place was built
and it's pretty neat reading some of the adds in that
so we are going to step up through this doorway and that takes you into the kitchen
pretty large kitchen almost a eat-in type kitchen you might say and the front door of the place
eat-in kitchen to include pantry pretty large pantry for back in 1878
where you can have your dry goods
and then panning over to...which is closed... the stairwell that goes up to the boys three bedrooms
and I hope this isn't too dark but you can kind of see why we keep that closed
they're not necessarily stairs but more like a ladder to save space I would guess back in the day
and then we the Majestic stove in here in the kitchen also
panning back over into the pump room the last room, again added on in 1909
and then there's the pump, not active,
and then a nice little access panel on the floor that would get you access to the crawlspace underneath the home
heading back out to the front door and this will be the exit to the tour
and again, down south the Visitor Center
what I like to show folks on this side is,
that's actually a 3 walled structure that pump house
they have pine stanchions with some cable wrapped in and that's what holds the three walled structure together
and then they have a nailing in adjacent to the original building pretty neat engineering
and you can tell here not adze-honed logs, these are all hand done logs back in the day
this is called Eastern dovetail notching and you can see how well built it is
still standing built in 1878.
Description
Join Ranger Ray for a virtual tour of the 1878 Hornbek Homestead. You'll visit the main bedroom, parlor, kitchen, and well house on the first floor.
Duration
4 minutes, 8 seconds
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