71 Amherst

71-73 Amherst Street
Buffalo, New York
Black Rock Neighborhood

COMPANION PAGE: Exterior Photos

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Stairs: original, although moved before 1989 from the back of house

Looking down stairs from second story

Stairs: original

Hand railing: original

Bedroom floor: original; width not uniform because hand hewn. This floor is varnished.

Floor: original; unvarnished.

Attic hatch: original

Hook rail: original

Close up of hand-cut peg

Door: one of two original doors in the house that are in use

Door: original; hand planed

Detail of last photo: no ogee molding on hand-hewn door

Living room baseboard: original ogee molding used only in the more "public" part of the house

Front door: original (although bottom cut down); federal style: cross and bible pattern

2-panel batten door: original; probably from in front of the kitchen stairs

Fireplace is not original to house.

Bedroom : Originally, there was plaster under the beams.

Bathroom

Attic ceiling. Note hand-hewn ax marks.

Split lathing and plank

Plank: lathe holes were not in straight line

Split lathe. Original

Beams: 32' long, 8"x8"

Upper half of joist rests in chopped out space in timber beam

Buried artifacts found on property

John Howell clay beverage container bottle; c. 1850

Closer view of shoe


Stairs: original, although moved before 1989 from the back of house	Looking down stairs from second story	Stairs: original	Hand railing: original

	Bedroom floor: original; width not uniform because hand hewn. This floor is varnished.	Floor: original; unvarnished.	Attic hatch: original

Hook rail: original	Close up of hand-cut peg	Door: one of two original doors in the house that are in use	Door: original; hand planed

Detail of last photo: no ogee molding on hand-hewn door	Living room baseboard: original ogee molding used only in the more "public" part of the house	Front door: original (although bottom cut down); federal style: cross and bible pattern	2-panel batten door: original; probably from in front of the kitchen stairs

Fireplace is not original to house.	Bedroom : Originally, there was plaster under the beams.	Bathroom	Attic ceiling. Note hand-hewn ax marks.

Split lathing and plank	Plank: lathe holes were not in straight line	Split lathe. Original	Beams: 32' long, 8"x8"

Upper half of joist rests in chopped out space in timber beam	Buried artifacts found on property	John Howell clay beverage container bottle; c. 1850	Closer view of shoe