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The first of the houses to be shown is the Summer Kitchen, located in the heart of Washington. This unique residence consists of -three dependencies of what is now Clopton House, built by Judge Edward Jones in the early 19th century. These are the summer kitchen itself, a dairy and a smoke house/root cellar. Summer kitchens kept the main house cooler, kept cooking odors out of the living areas and reduced the chances of fire in “the big house.”
In 1974, Washington cabinetmaker Peter Kramer and his wife Joyce remodeled these three structures into a single house, joining the smoke house to the dairy with a skylighted hallway and the dairy to the kitchen through the addition of a living room on the east side which now looks out on a lovely patio. Hie . kitchen still serves as such and has a bedroom above. The dairy is now the bath and the smoke house a bed/sitting room. To the latter Mr. Kramer : added a greenhouse wall making a solarium which brings the natural ; beauty of the surrounding trees into the living area.
The kitchen is dominated by a large stone fireplace whose hearth is - made of sizeable local stone slabs. Above the fireplace is an exact rep. lica of a Shaker mantel stove by . Peter Kramer. This wood stove, resembling an elongated mailbox,, is fed from one end and is more effi- cient than the fireplace itself.
The combination bed/sitting room . and office of the brick smoke house is
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