| Floor plans
of the first and second floors |
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Architectural Plans
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| The first year was spent making a complete set of
plans for the dollhouse. This meant not only measuring all the rooms,
dormers,
windows and doors, but also measuring all the interior cabinets,
door frames, moldings and location of all the light fixtures. Over
fifty drawings were made of all the details of the construction of the
house. Only some are shown on this web page. Some of the drawings were made for the marine carpenters who were going to construct the shell of the house. The remainder of the drawings were made for my benefit to allow me to construct the interior details, such as cabinets and fireplaces, and the exterior details, such as the window casements, eaves and front porch. All the dimensions were reduced to 1/12 th scale and adjusted to the nearest convenient dimension. Since the house was built in 1838, the windows and doors were made in place and were not factory produced. This meant that they were not all of a standard size. For my convenience in mass producing doors and windows, they were all reduced to a standard size. In addition it should be noted that all the dimensions were used only as a starting guide in the construction of the dollhouse. In practice all parts had to be carefully cut and fitted individually since one can not cut wood to exact dimensions. |
| Floor plans
of the first and second floors |
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| North and
south elevations with and without the three season back porch (not yet
constructed) |
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| Details for
the
construction of the four dormers |
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| Details for
the
construction of the front porch |
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| Details for
the construction of the porch roof including details of the eaves
molding |
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| Details for
the construction of the front porch unit |
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| Details for
the construction of
the kitchen cabinets on the west wall |
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| Details for
the construction of
kitchen fire place on kitchen's east wall |
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| Details fir
the construction of kitchen cabinets on east wall |
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| Details for
the construction of the interior north wall of the west parlor
including the fireplace. Note
that this is a mirror image of the wall in the east parlor. |
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| Details for
the construction of the east and west walls of the two parlors. Again,
they
are mirror images of each other. |
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| Details for
the construction of the hall staircase |
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| Details for
the construction of the dinning room china cabinet. |
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| Details for
the construction of the bookcases in the library |
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| Details of
the chimney and closet in the upstairs master bedroom and second floor
sitting room, mirror images of each other. |
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| Details for
the construction of the master bedroom shoe closet and the upstairs
hall
closet. |
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| Details for
the construction of the upstairs bathroom closets and linen cabinets. |
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| Details for
the construction of some of the interior doors and baseboard moldings. |
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| Details for
the construction of some of the exterior doors. |
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| Details for
the construction of the windows and window casements. |
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