Dismantles House "I bought the house for $335. A 70-year-old carpenter in the neighborhood. John Taylor, who built tlie house when he was a young man. took it down for; $700. His son hauled it to Buck- j iigham for $32. "Now I had tlie house but no i cue to put it up again. (The local ■ ntnietor had told Miss Howard it was not practical.' Another carpenter in his 80s who was a hne cabinet maker as well, agreed to put it up if I didn't blind lus being a little slow. (He is now deceased.' Both workmen were artists. The lirst marked each timber carefully as he took it down. Tlie second was as careful as lie would have been with new wood. "Originally there was one large loom and hall downstairs, and one large room and dressing room upstairs, with the kitchen across a breemvuy. By building the kitchen on as a wing there was
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