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Title	Norwalk historic building 012
Town	Norwalk
Subject - LCSH	Dwellings; Norwalk (Conn.)
Keywords	Historic homes; Old houses
Date [built] (Source)	1790-1800 (JJD; EDK)
Orig Owner	Taylor Sherman
Present Owner [1935-37]	Mrs. Frank Elwood
Location	89 Main Street; southwest corner of Cross Street.
Description [Material]	Wood
Roof	Hip
Chimney Type/No.of	Brick / central / near
Height	Two stories and half
Fenestration	5 window front; door at left side; 2/2 sash.
Overhang	None
Foundation	Fieldstone
Condition - Physical	Good
Authenticity	Fairly original; shingled
Doorway	Dutch; four raised panels in top half, two in bottom half. Four narrow pilasters framing door and sidelights; middle two fluted.
Interior	Hall - corner, (square). Stairs enclosed at rear, with four raised panel doors on first step. For other doors, cf. below. Ceiling 8 1/2'. Northwest room - has long wall-end of raised panels, three deep. Wide fireplace in middle with bold bolection moulding and mantel above with elaborate bed mould. The corner posts show simply as small sawed -off brackets near the ceiling. Visible in hall adjacent. There is no summer beam. Door is of six raised panels, which, on hall side, are sunken with quarter round, similar to front door. Two smaller back rooms - have diagonal fireplaces. The larger room behind the half room has some raised paneling. Upper hall - (large room) rail is round with tall square balusters. Doors mostly sunken panel, with H.L.hinges. Back upper room - has small plain fireplace with bed mould. Walls of beaded boards. Door of raised paneling without a bead. Corner posts show. Front upper room - corner posts show. Closet has double raised panel doors, and one with sunken panels. Fireplace has ears; mantel on bed mould. Across the face of its is an undulating rope moulding.
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Creator	W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut
Date - Created	1935-1942
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	data
Language	eng
Source - Location	Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033:28, WPA Records, Architectural Survey
Relation	Research Guide to Old House Resources at the Connecticut State Library: http://www.cslib.org/OldHouse.htm
Publisher	Connecticut State Library
Rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
File Name	wpa_archsurvey_nwal012