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NPS Form 10 -900 -a - OM8 Approval No. 1020.0018 <br />(8-86) _ <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number 7 Page 2 <br />Wertz— Bestte Farm St. .Joseph County IN <br />The interior of the house. never ornate. survives virtually <br />intact. The original doors (photo 5). surrounds. and stairs. <br />which appear to be of walnut. all remain.. Most are painted, as <br />they likely would have been from the start. ti:e doors are stained <br />and retain their original hardware. Spat -ally the interior <br />remains essentially the same: the lead — bearing walls are bricl'.: <br />covered with plaster. The basement. which may have been duct in <br />the 1880s. has wails of rubblestone. Its - 1 cr retains an <br />embedded brick circle where some -early heating source once stood. <br />for in the floor above the circle was a crate. <br />The aabled frame barn (photos 6.7) is appro;x i:uately three— and - a- <br />half stories h :ah and contains two 1,vels. The uprer level has <br />two rows of tall. narrow arched louvered openings on the east <br />(see photo 2) and north side-, only: it .is entered on the north un <br />a reinforced earthen bank (the concrete abutment was surely added <br />later) through tall double doors ( photo 6). The larcre oven space <br />looks much the same as when it was used to store hay. Tire upper <br />level is cantilevered over the lower on the south (photo 7). <br />forming a shelter where, no doubt. there once were animal pens. <br />The lower level has windows on all but the north side (owing to <br />the bank). which are four- lial ?t sashes with peaked surrounds. <br />Inside (photo 8) there are several wooden ,tanchions_ and stalls <br />with hand —hewn uptiaht beams. and set apart with work <br />benches and spaces for specific farm tasks. Some of the tailing <br />joists appear simply to be tree trunks with some fraaments of <br />Nark still remaining. scarcely hewn at all <br />
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