Hand Crafted Home

Central Hall Colonial home built by Thomas Hawkins, Master Carpenter. All updated modern conveniences including central heat, soap stone wood burning stove, 1914 Acorn gas burners and electric ovens cook stove, plumbing, updated electrical, furnace. R-19 insulation in all exterior and interior walls, R-30 insulation in attic. Storm windows cover all original windows, double pane, lifetime warranty windows on south side of house, storm door on front. 650 foot drilled well giving 75 gallons water per minute for house and livestock tanks are fed by underground river.

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The Farmhouse Kitchen

The stove is an original 1914 Acorn, refurbished into seven propane stove top burners and three electric ovens with a warming oven on the upper left side. David Erickson, near Boston, Mass., is the restorer and told me this stove was one of two in his known existence. At that time, the other was in a Colorado kitchen owned by Ralph Lauren.

The wood burning kitchen fireplace (propane stove removed) was re-built using slave made brick with a slab of wormy chestnut as mantle.

The birch kitchen cabinets, in an L shape with piano hinges, were hand crafted on site. A Welsh type cupboard takes up one wall (behind this end of table) with a 12 plate rack above the counter; some upper cabinets have glass fronts. A chef's pantry is on left side and a walk-in pantry with double sink behind the rocking chair.

Downstairs Photos

Working kitchen fireplace  

wormy chestnut mantle

Fireplace re-built using bricks made on farm

Hand crafted birch cupboard, 

shelves can be repositioned

1914 Acorn cook stove

7 propane gas burners

3 electric ovens and 1 warming oven

(restored by Erickson's Antique Stoves)

Hand crafted sun room, approx. 33x16
hand crafted walnut floor with wood cut from neighboring farm

2 person Whirlpool jetted tub, next to sun room, 

Handicapped accessible shower in tiled bathroom, 

propane heater

all 2.5 bathrooms are tiled

Woodstock soapstone stove
Fireplace and chimney liner are new and chimney cleaned yearly.

fireplace was made with slave made brick from the 1800's

Lassie was filmed in this valley and is the farm shown on the poster.

Downstairs front hall with

refinished heart pine floor.

Original heart pine floors throughout house

Front porch, toward head of valley

Front porch , toward intersection of Rt 91 and Rt 608