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struction of the cellar. The original east, north, and west faces of 

 this fireplace footing had been preserved intact. This footing was 

 not preserved to its full original height, but this level would have 

 been approximately the same as the height of the floor, presumably 

 immediately above the top of the main- wall footings. From the 

 description of this building in the inspection report of 1879, this 

 interior fireplace footing must have served the parlor room, which lay 

 just to the east and on the front of the building, as well as the dining 

 room, just to the rear (west) of the parlor. Near the fireplace foot- 

 ing lay a quantity of broken fired brick, probably remnants of the 

 original chimney from the fireplace. Most of the brick originally in 

 use here must have been removed at the time the building was 

 demolished. 



At the site of the "kitchen" wing, at the rear of the north half of 

 the Quarters, was a second small chimney base. This lay along the 

 footing of the west wall of the wing, and was of the same type of 

 rough stone masonry (fig. 20; pi. 45, a). Though not preserved to 

 full original height, this base rose above the elevation of the exterior 

 wall footing against which it abutted. Clearly related to this chim- 

 ney base was a section of fallen fire-brick masonry, found in the 

 interior of the wing. This section had presumably fallen at the 

 time the building was demolished, and lay with the interior plastered 

 surface downward. The section had been kept intact because of the 

 fact that it was a part surrounding a chimney hole and metal sleeve. 



Along a large part of the footings of the exterior walls of this 

 building the original building sills of cottonwood were still in place. 

 The portions best preserved, upon which any detail could be seen, 

 were those along the north footing and along the footings at the 

 rear wing (pL 46, a^t). These sills measured 3^/2 inches in thickness, 

 12 inches in width, and had been laid flat. They were, however, much 

 decayed, and had probably been somewhat compressed during use 

 by the weight of the building resting upon them, from an original 

 thickness of 4 inches. It was impossible to measure the complete 

 length of any of these sills except for one that lay on the west footing 

 of the rear wing; this timber was approximately 16 feet long (pis. 

 44, h ; 45, a) . 



These sills had been joined by overlapping joints, and at four of 

 the six corners of the footing and at one point along the north footing, 

 these joints could be observed. The joint along the north footing 

 was the best preserved, and in this instance the overlap of one timber 

 upon the other was approximately 10 inches deep (pi. 46, b). At the 

 corners of the masonry, the sills had been overlapped their full width 

 (12 inches), at right angles (pi. 46, a). This amount of overlapping 

 had doubtless varied according to convenience from place to place 

 in construction. These lap joints had been spiked with six to eight 



