Eploring the Attic...
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| This picture was taken from on top of the east cloak room looking over the center vestibule. This is the framing for the original bell tower. The upright corner 4x4s were cut off when they removed the bell tower. We are planning to design a replica bell tower soon! |
| Here you are above the east cloak room still looking towards the class room. You can see the wall studs from the north wall of the east cloak room. You can also see the ends of the original ceiling wood sticking through untouched for over 100 years!! The patched in hole on the left is the hole we patched over since we removed the lowered ceiling. It is how they got into that area while the lowered ceiling was there. |
| This is the step to get up on the vestibule where the bell tower is located and to go down the ceiling of the class room! |
| This picture is taken looking down the top of the ceiling from the vestibule to the front of the class room. You can see the ceiling strips we had to replace after removing the lowered ceiling. |
| Someone had an accident! Just wonder how old this is!! Haa haa!! |
| The original chimney exit through the middle of the class room. When we get the floors done we plan to install our restored wood burning stove in the center and the stove pipe will be going up through here. |
| And this is where the stove pipe will come up through the ceiling. This is the original hole. |
| This is evidence that there was indeed a brick chimney originally!! After all these years and this is what is left!! SO COOL!! |
| The adventurers!! Mike and Valerie Brunhoeber The ones doing all this work to preserve this cool piece of our history!!! Many of these old country schools served generations and generations of farm families across the nation!! |
| Looking down towards the sides from the middle of the class room ceiling. All this so original and untouched! Also nice and dirty!! |
| You can see the original wood shingles between the boards of the roof. |
| Looking down the center of the class room attic. You can see the gap where the original chimney went up through the roof. How much wood you reckon is in this thing? And this is just half of the attic! |
| This picture was taken from above the chalk board of the class room looking to the east towards the addition. You can see the tops of the diagonal plating which is on all of the outside walls. |
| This picture was taken by hanging the camera down through the original chimney hole in the class room ceiling. In the attic we are walking on the studs on this ceiling! |
| You can see the wall studs go all the way up and are notched out for the rafters. Glad we were in there at night! Look at all those mud dauber nests!! Just wonder how old some of the those nests are!! |
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