The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800 . the river and fouron the other. The four rooms were of equalsize. On the river side the middle room wastwice the size of the others in length and extend-ed into the hall with double doors set crosswiseon each corner, opposite each of which was abroad flight of stairs to the second story. Ineach end of this room were fireplaces, one muchlarger than the other. So large indeed that whenit was used by the Laportes as a kitchen, oxendrew the back logs right into the room. Themantel was about as high as a mans head. In —38— to;--~ M K
The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800 . the river and fouron the other. The four rooms were of equalsize. On the river side the middle room wastwice the size of the others in length and extend-ed into the hall with double doors set crosswiseon each corner, opposite each of which was abroad flight of stairs to the second story. Ineach end of this room were fireplaces, one muchlarger than the other. So large indeed that whenit was used by the Laportes as a kitchen, oxendrew the back logs right into the room. Themantel was about as high as a mans head. In —38— to;--~ M K V >N k, f ;^ ^\ \ V *<: ^ I ? *,^^ ^^3 ^ f^ i V \; ^ .X \ ^ \ s ^ K ^ X the center of the side was a double door with theupper half set with small panes of glass. Each sideof this door were French windows, very large,opening from the floor nearly to the ceiling. Plainboard ceiling was used instead of plaster forwalls, most of the woodwork plain and unpainted,though the lower stairs had newell posts and rails ^^m^^^^^s^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M^^^s^^^s^si^^^.
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