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Date: | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:05:41 -0400 |
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One of the more unusual "underhouse" problems I worked on was at the
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Site in Cresson, PA at the Lemon Tavern.
At the top of the seven (7) inclined planes (depicted on some "blue china"
and replaced by the great steam locomotive "Horseshoe Bend") where the NPS
used to hire a Charles Dickens look-a-like to deliver his known talk there,
was a subterranean garage. The previous owner had banked up the soil,
continuing the grade on the "front" of the house (the railroad ran in the
"back") and had an interesting front door where the second story porch door
had once been!
The NPS excavated around the front of the house, built of stone and actually
three stories, though once it looked like two, from the highway that now
runs by it, to try to determine what the two story porch structure looked
like now tht the "front door" was hanging in space on the second floor! Well
the porch foundation stones were quite large as were the foundation stones
for the large structure and I imagine today it may have that two story porch
again.
George Myers
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