The Dwelling that The Charlestown Animal Hospital is in, Charlestown New Hampshire

The Dwelling that The Charlestown Animal Hospital is in, Charlestown New Hampshire. The Dwelling its self sure does have a lot of very interesting things about it. As I wrote in my blog post titled The Charlestown Animal Hospital and a Historic Site in Charlestown New Hampshire. The very first dwelling that was on this site was back in 1752, which Captain James Johnson had constructed a cabin for his family and himself to live in, as they started their new life of living outside the protection of the Fort at No. 4, which was located aways South of their cabin.

I'll add a link for that post at the end of this one, for those of you that have not read it yet, and would like to.

This is not at all a photo of the Johnson cabin in 1752, but it can give you some what of an idea. What the very first dwelling may have looked like many years later of no one living in it, on this Historic Site in Charlestown.

Now for a photo of how The Dwelling that The Charlestown Animal Hospital is in, Charlestown New Hampshire looks like today. On this Historic Site.

There are three sections of this dwelling. Some areas of it date back many many moons ago.

There are many puzzles about this dwelling, as it stands now, from its chronological order of its growth. Theres a shed in the back, that appears to be the oldest section. With the dimensions nearly corresponding to those of the province houses constructed at the fort. This dwelling at one time had two batten doors of very small size, very similar to the old door with a hatchet scar, that is also from this dwelling, thats now on exhibition at Fort No. 4. Theres a trap door to a root cellar, and worn stairs ascend to a sleeping area under the eaves, but theres no evidence at all of a cook hearth.

At one time in The Dwelling that The Charlestown Animal Hospital is in, Charlestown New Hampshire, there was a kitchen in the middle of this dwelling, more than likely was the second area of construction. There are some remains of a hearth and chimney, but they are now hidden by one of the walls. This dwelling has a rock foundation, and very old beams in the crawl space area. Now heres something that sure is very interesting, the walls are insulated with corn husks.

The second dwelling that was constructed on this Historic Site, by Mrs. Johnson's mother, Susanna (Hastings) Willard, along with the help of Colonel Whiting, they constructed it while the family were in captivity.

The front section of this dwelling sure appears to have been constructed as a free standing structure at a later date, that has cellar walls of rock, and bricks from an early nearby brickyard in town. At one time it had a one pipe wood and coal burning furnace. The base of it is still in place, and the register, is now hidden by floor covering in what was the dining room of the dwelling, this register heated the whole dwelling.

Now the next section of The Dwelling that The Charlestown Animal Hospital is in, Charlestown New Hampshire, sure has undergone many changes over the years, a new entry was added at one time, that covered the old door and its side lights, and a back entry was closed off, but the steps were left right in place. Where the living room was, there was a real fine looken fireplace with a fine looken mantel and side decorations but it was just for show, seen that there was not a chimney.

A mystery of this dwelling is the three sections of the whole do not at all fit together correctly. When the front and the center sections were joined, parts of the windows were wiped out, and the shed roof protrudes into a bedroom on the second floor over where a kitchen once was.

Heres some more very interesting information about The Dwelling that The Charlestown Animal Hospital is in, Charlestown New Hampshire, it was in that bedroom many former visitors had experienced bad vibrations. And some of those guests had even refused to sleep in that particular bedroom.

Doing a full Home Inspection of a dwelling as of this one, sure would be a dream come true for this Home Inspector. I have gotten to Inspect some very interesting Historic Home's in the pass, but none of them were anything like this dwelling. Wow I sure would have to do the happy dance after doing an Inspection of a dwelling lik this one. Thats for sure!

Link to The Charlestown Animal Hospital and Historic Site in Charlestown New Hampshire

Charlestown Website http://www.charlestown-nh.gov

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