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Eisenhower Stables 3D Tour - Audio Described
Transcript
0:01
An information panel on an inclined metal reading rail stands a few feet outside the three gray green swinging barn doors of the horse stables.
0:12
Moving through the door at the far left, there's a metal hitching post along the wall at the right.
0:17
Beyond the post, an open doorway at the right leads into another small room.
0:22
The dirt and gravel floor of the stables continues forward down a long hallway, with several fenced in wooden stalls at the right.
0:30
Moving forward to the beginning of the line of stalls, massive wooden support beams line the hallway at the left.
0:36
Some of the beams are smooth from the cut of a saw blade, but many show the rough cuts of hand tools.
0:42
Turning to the right, a finished and lacquered wood door jamb frames the open doorway of the tack room.
0:50
Moving through the doorway, custom fixtures line the walls of the small side room, panelled entirely with knotty pine.
0:57
Two rows of three capped wooden posts stick out from the side wall.
1:06
At the right, light streams through a slender window above a rope covered rack and a low bench.
1:16
Moving back out of the tack room.
1:18
The sturdy wooden walls stand atop a two foot (60 centimeter) course of stones and mortar.
1:25
White paint flakes off all the walls. Turning back left to the stable door, a hose attached to a water spigot outside lays coiled in the sun.
Description
By the spring of 1955, renovations to the Eisenhower’s barn’s stables had been completed. General and Mrs. Eisenhower were fond of horses, and as a result quite a few of them could be found on the farm. Additionally, friends of Eisenhower’s grandchildren would often ride with them, housing their horses at the farm for a short term. This 3D tour allows you to visit the space where the Eisenhowers and friends housed their horses.
Duration
1 minute, 40 seconds
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