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1. Katie on February 8, 2022 at 7:14 am

   Ross, you are a total bloody tease, do you know that?

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2. Blair Carmichael on February 8, 2022 at 7:48 am

   Are those gas pipes below the floor?

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3. Barb Sanford on February 8, 2022 at 8:51 am

   At my parent’s old house, there would have been a flask in that portal. Or three or more.

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4. Mike on February 8, 2022 at 10:04 am

   We have a similar portal in the middle of a second floor bedroom. The floor (3″ T&G) was finished 2′ in around the perimeter of the room, the large middle section has always been covered a a rug/carpet. The portal is only 13″ square, so except for sticking my head in to see what I could see, I have never tried to enter it. There were fragments of newspaper from 1922 scattered inside; given that Prohibition began in 1920 and the old judge who lived here then was known for enjoying his whiskey and cigars, I suspect that the portal may have been designed for the purpose imagined by Barb in her comment 🙂

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5. Chris on February 8, 2022 at 11:23 am

   I suppose plumbing access is too banal?

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6. mlaiuppa on February 8, 2022 at 3:37 pm

   Galvanized pipes?

   You gonna replace that?

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7. Rhonda@Homer Ridge on February 8, 2022 at 4:27 pm

   Given that it was once a carriage house, at first I thought it might be a chute to throw hay down to the horse in the stall below. However, I think it is too small, based on the pictures. Hay chutes are usually situated between joists and/or have some reinforcement around the opening much like around a window or door opening. Since the building was moved and renovated into a house, it’s hard to know now just where stalls and hay chutes were located. Perhaps it could have been figured out by someone familiar with carriage barns had the walls been open to the framing, but keeping the plaster and honoring the narrative of the renovation into a house is probably more important as it has been a house far longer than it stabled horses.🤷🏼‍♀️ Your carriage house has been a particular interest of mine as a farmer and horse person who has always been fascinated with the structure of old barns. Its renovation story has been so enjoyable!

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8. Laurie L Weber on February 8, 2022 at 5:42 pm

   If it’s Narnia, I want to go! Mysteries are never far from you…. 🙂

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