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Warfield House 3D Tour - Audio Described
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A one-and-a-half story, two-room stone farmhouse sits on a grassy lot beside a paved road. The triangular, gabled roof extends beyond the front stone walls, covering a low wood porch. Two white sash windows flank a single white door.
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Moving around to the left side of the house, just behind the porch, a pair of white storm cellar doors sit above ground on a slight angle sloping away from the building.
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Two double hung windows appear one above the other in the center of the side stone wall, one per floor. An angled metal reading rail sits next to the house, to the left of the first-floor window.
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Moving to the rail, "A Valuable Little Property" recounts the story of the Warfield family and the property's restoration.
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Moving to the other side of the building, two double hung windows appear high on the wall on the second floor. Wide bands of mortar fill all the spaces between the stones, matching their color and texture.
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At the front left, a small, metal plaque mounted on the side wall closest to the porch reads: "Civil War Building, July 1863."
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Moving to the front of the house, an eight-foot wide, covered wooden porch spans the width of the building. The porch planks are painted gray. The roof extends over the porch, supported by four equally spaced white wood pillars at the front.
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From a position facing the front left window, we turn right and move through the narrow front door, across a stone threshold.
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Moving into the house, a narrow strip of contemporary wood flooring stretches through the center of the room, from the front door to the back plaster wall. Around the edges of this flooring, four-foot-tall black metal stanchions with web straps limit where visitors can move.
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To the right, the floor is missing, exposing the thick, original mid-nineteenth century floor beams and rubble below.
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Light streams through a pair of double hung windows along the back wall at the left and right. Overhead, the original wooden joists run front to back, mottled with peeling white paint.
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Just above the rafters, holes in the ceiling expose some structural metal supports used to stabilize the stone walls and prevent them from shifting.
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Turning to the left, the original wood plank floor is in place, secured to the floor beams with square, cut nails.
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A double hung window along the left-hand wall looks out over the side of the house. Overhead, additional wood planks with peeling white paint complete the ceiling. A few baseboards finish the walls at the floor.
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Moving left beyond the stanchions to a position in front of the left side window, facing across the house to the right-hand wall, there's a horizontal mounting surface in the middle of the far wall, possibly for a mantle.
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It sits just a few feet below a blackened, circular hole in center of the brick wall above it, a flue opening for a chimney.
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Description
This stone farmhouse belonged to James Warfield and his wife Eliza—both members of Gettysburg’s African American community. As the Confederate Army approached, the Warfields fled, fearful of capture. Confederate troops occupied the Warfield property on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, and launched attacks against Union troops occupying the nearby Sherfy Peach Orchard. The Warfield family returned to find their property damaged, and their belongings taken. This 3D tour allows you to visit their home.
Duration
2 minutes, 36 seconds
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