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ain triangular pediment. The rear doorway has a transom and door similar to the front doorway. The kitchen door opens onto a 4 by 4-foot wooden porch with railing and three steps to ground level. The sunporch door has interchangeable screen and glass panels for winter and summer use and opens on the front of the house at ground level. _Windows and Shutters._ In the central block, the front doorway is flanked by French windows, with 12-over-9 lights in double-hung wooden sash. The rear windows on the first floor are 9-over-9 lights in double-hung wooden sash. Windows on the second floor front and rear sides are 6-over-6 lights in double-hung wooden sash, as are the dormer windows and gable end windows. The windows on the first and second floors of the central block have 2-foot 10-inch wooden sills and full-length louvered shutters hung on pintles (two on each side of the window frame). Window frames, sills, and muntins are painted dark green. In the east and west wings of the house, the front windows are 6-over-6 lights in double-hung wooden sash. The rear window in the east wing (living room) has a dead-light picture window (6 by 4 feet) flanked by windows with 6-over-9 lights in double-hung wooden sash. Window frames, sills, and muntins are white, and full-length wooden shutters are dark green. In the brickwork of the house, flat arches have been laid over all of the windows on the first floor, except over the windows on the rear of the central block. The sunporch on the east end of the house is of frame construction and has nine windows (2-1/2 by 5 feet) on three sides. _Roof._ Photographs taken about 1900 show the house with an enclosed porch across the front and a sheet metal roof on the porch. In contrast, the central block of the house and the kitchen (east) wing have shingled roofs (figure 5). Photographs in 1936 show the central portion of the house with a sheet metal roof (figure 7). In 1942, the roofing on all parts of the house was replaced with specially made concrete shingles, which are still in place.[90] The roof is a simple medium-pitched roof with plain gable ends. Interior chimneys are centered in each end of the center section and in the east end of the living room (former kitchen) wing. Full-length copper gutters are incorporated into the eaves and project approximately six inches above and beyond the cornice. Cornices on the front and rear of the center section of the house a
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