House in 1945
This is our house on Chebogue Point Road, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. It is an 1860's building and is in the 'carpenter gothic' style according to Houses of Nova Scotia by Allen Penney. The side with the light on it is south. The house is a story and a half so the upstairs rooms have sloped ceilings. The basic house has a central hall with a front and back room on each side both up and down stairs - eight rooms in all. There is also a wing on the back that connects to the kitchen.
Between 1945 when this picture was taken and when we bought
to house in 1998 it had aged by 53 years and suffered a number
of years of neglect. The wonderful barn in the background of the
picture is gone. Its foundations are still there and will form
the base for a 'sunken garden' in the future. The little railing
on the front porch was gone too and it wasn't until our neighbors
brought the picture to us that we found that was a part to the
original scheme.
We are busy doing renovations and hope to have the house weather
proofed and heated by winter of 1999. We are digging out basement
and crawl spaces, redoing some of the foundations and sills, regrading
the site to drain properly, adding insulation and a central heating
system, installing a composting toilet system, upgrading electricity,
redoing plumbing, putting a new roof on the front and new shingle
siding all over the house. After that we will start on room improvements.
We are trying to recover as much material as we can during the
deconstruction process and so far have a great collection of wood,
windows and rock. Land survey and landscape plans are in progress.
Within a year or so we hope to have ourselves established as the
Chebogue Point Permaculture Center. We have this site plus the
berry patch down the road as teaching sites and areas for design
exercises and project demonstration. Our neighbours and other
friends in the area are involved in activities of interest to
people studying permaculture. Looking forward to this phase of
our plans.
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