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A dining room and pantry were added on the south in 1824. The two story Victorian addition on the north dates from 1864.
The log house was built by a Mr. Strother as a Rectory for one of the several Episcopal “chapels of ease” in the area at that time, located to make church attendance easier. The home had housed four generations of Slaughters, the last being Anne Slaughter Keyser.
Mr. Herrema specializes in home restoration and renovation and The Oaks is a beautiful example of his work. The dividing wall between the two rooms on the lower floor of the original house has been removed and walls and ceilings laid bare. This is now the kitchen/sitting room with 12 inch to 16 inch locust logs 18 to 30 feet in length, exposed. In the south wall of this room is the original large, shallow fireplace. In the ceiling are beaded beams, hand hewn like the logs in the walls and held in place with wooden pegs. The 200 year old pine floors have been restored to their warm golden color.
The view to the mountains in the west is lovely and only slightly distorted by the original, handmade window panes. The Victorian addition boasts a lovely graceful stair case with walnut bannister and newel post.
At the time the chapel still stood on the property, near the stone marker to the right front of the house, Queen Anne of England presented the congregation with a silver dipper which was kept chained to an oak at a spring to the north of and slightly below the house; the oak is still there and is known as the “Dipper Oak.”
In addition to the house tour and flower sale, tea will
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