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3-inch tongue-and-groove lumber, and from 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 

 8 inches in length (pi. 47, a). It seems unlikely that either of these 

 floors was the original, and the floor remains found were probably 

 replacements. It is known, however, from the report of 1879, that 

 the Commanding Officer's Quarters had been furnished at that time 

 with an "enclosed porch" at the kitchen wing, and the dimensions of 

 the original as given, 6 by 18 feet, are approximately the same as 

 those of which remains were found. 



In addition to iho, construction materials collected, such as wood and 

 plaster fragments, numerous objects were found in excavation of 

 this building site. The greater part of these pertained to the period 

 of the occupation of the former dwelling as a farm home rather than 

 to any earlier period. In the area beneath the rear porch were nu- 

 merous items of some interest, particularly various children's play- 

 things. Elsewhere within the footings of the building clear evidence 

 was found of the late use of the building as a granary, in small grain 

 and straw among the building debris. On the site of the kitchen wing 

 were the skeletal remains of small animals (rats, mice, cats, and do- 

 mestic fowl), some of which were doubtless also introduced in the site 

 during the use of the building as a granary. 



The Commanding Officer's Quarters, like the other major buildings 

 of the post, was thus set upon stone masonry foundations, the walls 

 having been of braced framing, packed with adobe brick, rather than 

 of massive adobe-brick masonry as in the case of the Barracks and 

 Hospital and, probably, other larger buildings of the post. Some 

 specimen material of millwork from the building is now available. 

 Details of front, side, and rear elevations of this building are avail- 

 able in sketches by de Trobriand and in various photographs (de 

 Trobriand, 1951, opp. p. 356). Only one major architectural change 

 is known to have been made in this structure after its completion, that 

 of the introduction of a cellar, and the removal of portions of the 

 original footings at the same time. 



The description of the buildings of Fort Stevenson, given in 1879, 

 which records that they were "of adobe brick set up in frames on 

 rock foundations," is particularly well illustrated in this instance, in 

 which evidence had been preserved of the "braced framing" of the 

 original. The mortises mentioned revealed the design of the timber 

 construction, and betvveen this framing adobe brick had been used 

 as packing or lining. It will be recalled that at the site of the large 

 public buildings previously excavated, the Hospital and the South 

 Barracks, no clear evidence of the original framing had been pre- 

 served, whereas it was seen, by reason of the accidental firing of 

 masonry, that solid masonry walls of adobe brick had been employed 

 there. Thus, despite the phrasing of the inspection report, there 

 is evidence that there were some variations in the design of the build- 



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