My father had purchased a house (that began it's long history as a cooperage, to judge from the volume of barrel loops to be found on the premises,corn crib or other such storage building), which was situated upon a lot that had been struck off from the adjacent farm and sold to a freed slave following the Civil War.
The various owners had, over the course of the years, made improvements to the building;cladding it in German siding (over the original clap board), adding two rooms, front and side, laying T&G flooring over the rough planks of the floor in the original cabin's second story, and in short converting this structure into a house.
