New Garden Historical Commission - U of Del Report

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#990099" lang=EN-US> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%" bgcolor="#999999"> <tr> <td><p align="center"><img src="../lyceum/lyceum.jpg" width="200" height="114"></p> </td> <td align="center"> <h1><font color=black>New Garden Historical Commission</font></h1> <p><a href="../index.htm" target="_top"><font color=black>Click here</font></a> <font color=black> to return to the home page and links to other articles</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Lamborn House</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal>                                                                                                            </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Newport Pike</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Located Inside the Township Park</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>New Garden Township</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Chester County, Pennsylvania</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img width=575 height=431 src="LambornHouse_files/image001.jpg"></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>View of Lamborn House looking southwest</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img width=575 height=431 src="LambornHouse_files/image002.jpg"></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>View of Lamborn House looking northeast</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Jeroen van den Hurk</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Center for Historic Architecture and Design</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>University of Delaware</p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i>Margaret Jones</i></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i>New Garden Historical Commission</i></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'>May 23, 2005</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt; line-height:200%'>The Lamborn House</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>The L-shaped plan of the Lamborn House rests among the rolling hills in the middle of New Garden Township just south of the Gap Newport Pike (Route 41). The house as we see it today is the product of several construction periods. Each of these periods altered the appearance of the building as a whole, and they reflect changes in architectural taste. Physical evidence found in the building could date the oldest section of the house back to the first half of the eighteenth century; however, archival evidence dates this part to circa 1817. Drastic changes to both the exterior and interior of the building have made it difficult to uncover much of its original configuration.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><i><span style='color:black'>In 1716, James Starr, formerly of County Carlow, Ireland, purchased 350 acres from William Penn, Jr. This tract of land in New Garden Township straddled what was to become the Gap-Newport Pike. In 1731, Starr sold 200 acres of this tract to a Robert Brown, a maltster, who held it until 1743 when he in turn sold the property to James Miller. Miller's heirs sold the farm to a Jonathan Daws in 1777. Daws subsequently sold the 200 acres to Thomas Lamborn, a tanner.<br> <br> It seems likely that Robert Brown built the first house, a log one. The inventory in 1743, at the time of his death, was a modest list of furnishings, beds, bedding, six rush bottom chairs, a brass candlestick, spinning wheels, pewter and tin ware, a trunk and a chest.  James Miller's inventory of 1758 is more extensive and refers to "furniture in the east room upstairs, and to a feather bed in the east end of the house below." This would imply a two-storey house with at least two rooms on each floor. "Sundry lots of lumber in the garret and kitchen lofts," suggest a one-storey kitchen.<br> <br> In 1777, Jonathan Daws, gentleman of Philadelphia, purchased the 200 acres from the heirs of James Miller. For Daws, this was apparently an investment property since he rented it to Thomas Lamborn who then purchased the farm in 1783. <br> <br> </span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><b>Period I</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>No evidence remains to indicate what type of dwelling James Starr lived in, or of the log-dwelling Robert Brown built. Either of these structures could still have been standing when the owners build the current oldest surviving brick section of the house. This earlier structure would have functioned as kitchen for the new section of the house. This new section consisted of a two-and-a-half story brick building. It had two interior gable end chimneystacks and a steeply pitched gable roof. The brick of the north elevation is laid in Flemish bond and evidence suggests there was a belt course on the north and south elevation just below the second floor windows. The style and use of material of this section of the house is reminiscent of other buildings within this geographical area from the early eighteenth century.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><img width=410 height=412 src="LambornHouse_files/image003.gif"></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period I - First Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=504 height=378 src="LambornHouse_files/image004.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Detail of brick bond on south elevation underneath eastern window</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=481 height=360 src="LambornHouse_files/image005.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View of period I north exterior wall brick, as seen from inside the period II kitchen ell stairwell.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=494 height=589 src="LambornHouse_files/image006.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>The only remaining portions of the exterior brick belt course can be seen in the attic of the kitchen ell.  The brick course was located just below the second floor windows on the north and south sides of the house.  Most of it was chipped away when the house was stuccoed sometime in the twentieth century.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>The first floor of the period I section consists of a three-room plan. Its front elevation faces south and consists of three evenly spaced bays, with a central door. The door gives access to the largest of the three rooms. This room consists of a single open space with a large fireplace against the west gable wall. Windows flank the fireplace on either side and a third window is located in the south wall. A door in the north wall probably gave access to an earlier kitchen wing. Located in the northeast corner of this room is the boxed-in winder stairs leading to the second floor and to the cellar. A small window in the north elevation lit this stair. Physical evidence remains of its original window frame with a hole for a single central stanchion. Doors in the center partition wall give access to two rooms on the east side of the house. The southeast room receives light from a single window in the south wall. A corner fireplace is located in the northeast corner of the room. The northeast room is similar. A window pierces the north wall of this room; a corner fireplace in the southeast corner heats the room. The bond on the north elevation is more irregular than that on the south elevation. The mortar joints on this side are thumb struck. The poplar ceiling joists-5 inches wide and 7 ½ inches high-in the period I section of the house were originally left exposed and painted with a Spanish brown color.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'><span style='color:silver'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><img width=456 height=342 src="LambornHouse_files/image007.jpg"></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.5in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View of ceiling joists and chimney trimmer in first floor west room against west gable-end</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=476 height=635 src="LambornHouse_files/image008.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:63.0pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:63.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>.  The small window opening now partially blocked by these stairs originally lit the boxed-in winder stair that led from the first to the second floor on the other side of this wall (view from current kitchen-ell stairway to the attic along the original northern outside wall of the house)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-.5in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=371 height=279 src="LambornHouse_files/image009.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.5in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Detail of blocked-off winder-stair window (photo taken from kitchen-ell stairway to attic)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-.5in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=369 height=492 src="LambornHouse_files/image010.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.25in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Detail of blocked-off winder-stair window showing muntin hole (photo taken from kitchen-ell stairway to attic)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:117.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=468 height=624 src="LambornHouse_files/image011.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Detail of trimmer for corner fireplace in first floor east room.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=420 height=558 src="LambornHouse_files/image012.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:81.0pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Interior first floor period I: detail of hewn poplar ceiling joist showing remains of Spanish brown paint</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:81.0pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:117.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:81.0pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:117.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=409 height=270 src="LambornHouse_files/image013.gif"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period I - Second Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>The spatial arrangement of the second floor mirrored that of the first. It consisted of a three-room plan. Evidence suggests that the large room on the west side of the dwelling had a fireplace against the west gable wall.  This room received light from four windows, two in the south wall, one in the north wall, and one in the west gable wall flanking the fireplace to the right. It is uncertain if the winder stair to the attic continued at the same location. The presence of a small window in the west gable end, located partially below the attic floor level, could point towards the location of the winder stair leading to the attic. The whitewashed ceiling joists were originally left exposed.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><img width=466 height=864 src="LambornHouse_files/image014.jpg"></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View of remnants of original chimney stack against west gable-end in attic</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=443 height=520 src="LambornHouse_files/image015.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:81.0pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:81.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>The small window, located partially below the attic floor, could indicate a winder stair coming up from below.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:45.0pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:81.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=456 height=635 src="LambornHouse_files/image016.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>West gable end showing location of the small window</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>Due to an extensive fire in 1955 there is little structural evidence left in the attic. The remnants of the flues indicate the presence of four fireplaces and the surviving plaster on the gable walls suggest that the original rafters were larger than the current ones. The steep roof pitch and the plaster finish do suggest that the owners used this space for more than just storage. Two windows pierce the east gable wall and two the west gable wall. One of these is a small square window, which is partially located below the attic floor level.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>An alcove in the north wall of the cellar, approximately midway, allowed a stair to enter from the first floor of the wing. The presence of a small brick relieving-arch in the west gable wall at the cellar level points toward the existence of either a bake oven or a small root cellar. The hewn ceiling joists in the cellar are partially left rounded.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=528 height=396 src="LambornHouse_files/image017.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.25in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>A stair descended from the Period II kitchen-ell through an alcove on the north wall of the Period I basement.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><img width=516 height=385 src="LambornHouse_files/image018.jpg"></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>A relieving arch gives evidence of either a bake oven or a small root cellar in the west gable wall of the period I basement.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><i><span style='color:black'>During the Revolutionary War, the non-combatant Quaker, Lamborn suffered deprivations from the Hessians, from local militia, and from the Colonial officials who <br> confiscated property from those who did not voluntarily pay their war taxes. On one occasion, Thomas Lamborn was plowing in the field when some militia officers detached his horses from the plow, appropriated them to the use of the army leaving Lamborn alone with his plow.  On another occasion, militia beat sheaves of his wheat against posts in the barn to remove the grain, threw the straw back into the mow, saying, "There, Lamborn can have that!"<br> <br> When the Hessians encamped near Allen's Tavern, they scoured the countryside for supplies. At Thomas Lamborn's farm, less than a mile from the tavern, they took everything which they could carry or drive away. Then in the winter of 1780-81, in lieu of war taxes, the Colonial authorities confiscated two cows, six sheep, four lambs, two pewter dishes, and two plates. The Colonial authorities fined Thomas Lamborn for altogether almost 769 pounds, or about $4000. With so much loss, he came close to losing his farm. In 1787, he was "sold out" by the sheriff; fortunately, however, his brother, William Lamborn, of London Grove, was able to come to his rescue, buying the property, selling off enough to satisfy the creditors and returning the remaining land to Thomas.<br> <br> Tax records of 1799 show Thomas Lamborn assessed $35.00 for 90 acres, a log house and log barn. In 1817, however, his tax bill increased to $600 with a brick house, frame barn, log barn and two log tenant houses. Thomas Lamborn's fortunes must have improved. <br> <br> For a number of years, Thomas Lamborn was responsible for opening graves in the New Garden Friends Burying Ground. In the summer of 1824, he calculated he had dug 60 graves in as many days due to an epidemic of dysentery.<br> <br> In 1843, Thomas Lamborn willed his farm to his sons, John and Thomas; John received the western tract, Thomas, the eastern. The brick house and farm buildings were on the land son Thomas inherited. <br> <br> Thomas and his wife, Mary, farmed the property for a number of years, but Thomas, a Quaker minister, was deemed "out of unity" with the Orthodox branch of Friends because of his universalist views of spirituality.  He felt charity and fellowship should not be confined to the narrow limits of the Quaker community. Thomas Lamborn exerted not only his voice and his pen but also his influence against the social issues of the day.  He strongly opposed slavery, advocated peace, and decried the manufacture of intoxicating beverages.  Ultimately, he was "read out of Meeting" - i.e. dismissed. With a few sympathizers, he met for worship apart from other Friends and eventually in 1860, moved first to Lancaster County and then to Kansas.<br> <br> In the sale notice published in the Village Record in 1858, Thomas Lamborn described his buildings as: "a good brick dwelling, 2 1/2 stories high, stone kitchen adjoining, a large and excellent double floored barn 36 X 51 feet, with dormitory, corn crib and granaries, a wagon house at one end, 13 feet wide, cellared under.  There is a carriage house with corn crib attached, having a second story lathed and plastered, suitable for a school room or shop, spring house, wood house, smoke house etc."<br> <br> </span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><b>Period II</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><b><img width=433 height=421 src="LambornHouse_files/image019.gif"></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period II - First Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=437 height=415 src="LambornHouse_files/image020.gif"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period II - Second Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>The period II addition consisted of the addition of one-and-a-half story stone kitchen ell measuring 20'2" by 20'4" on the exterior. It most likely replaced an earlier log wing. It consists of one large space with a cooking fireplace and bake oven located against the north gable end. Windows with splayed jambs in each of the exterior walls light the interior and a door in the west wall and one in the east wall give access to the outside. One of the windows flanks the fireplace, which could indicate the presence of a wet or dry sink underneath this window. A stair or ladder in the southeast corner of the addition led to the attic above. The ceiling joist in the period II addition extended past the wall to support the false plat upon which the rafters rest. The joists were originally left exposed which is supported by the fact that they are heavily covered with soot. The penultimate joist before reaching the period I section of the house shows signs of whitewash on its southern side. The floorboards in the attic are splined.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><img width=528 height=396 src="LambornHouse_files/image021.jpg"></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.25in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View of slot for original attic floor joist at southeast corner of kitchen ell where it meets the north wall of the original Period I house at right.  This is evidence that the current stairway in this corner was not original.  It may have been preceded by a ladder to access the attic.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=504 height=672 src="LambornHouse_files/image022.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Door to stair or ladder (now a closet) in first floor of the period II kitchen ell.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=431 height=324 src="LambornHouse_files/image023.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Detail of above</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=468 height=351 src="LambornHouse_files/image024.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View of Period II kitchen ell attic looking north</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=504 height=378 src="LambornHouse_files/image025.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Splined floorboards in the kitchen ell attic</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>To gain easy access to the attic over top of the new wing from the period I section of the house the owners turned the window in the north wall of the west room on the second floor into a door. Evidence suggests they cut back the original belt course below the window to accommodate this door.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=539 height=720 src="LambornHouse_files/image026.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View from interior of kitchen ell attic showing doorway cut to access main house second floor.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><i><span style='color:black'>Pennock Hoopes of Delaware County was the purchaser of the 115-acre Lamborn farm in 1860. (Combining the two Lamborn tracts once again, the one Thomas Lamborn had inherited from his father and the one he purchased from his brother, John.)  Hoopes lived there until his death in 1884, when Josiah Lamborn, nephew of Thomas Lamborn, purchased the tract containing the brick house. Contemporaries described Josiah Lamborn as "a man of unquestionable ability and sagacity for business, possessing great energy and strength which enabled him to carry on successfully that which he undertook on the farm which once belonged to his grandfather."<br> <br> In 1888, a news item in the Daily Local described a new hog house Josiah Lamborn was constructing on his farm "...65 X 18 feet" to contain 90 head of hogs. Besides building the hog house, he was also re-roofing his house. Josiah Lamborn continued on the farm of his forbearers until his death in 1929. Despite an interruption of 24 years between 1860 and 1884, the farm was in Lamborn hands for 124 years.</span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><b>Period III</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=365 height=385 src="LambornHouse_files/image027.gif"></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period III - First floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>The period III construction phase consisted of a rearranging of the layout of the house. The period I section became a two-room plan. The western room remained more or less the same, whereas the two eastern rooms became a single space. A more formal central stair replaced the winder stair. It is a wide, partially open stair, which starts out straight and eventually turns left. A single fireplace replaced the back-to-back fireplaces against the east gable wall. A boxed-in stair replaced the earlier stair in the period II section. To accommodate this new stair the builder cut part of the ceiling joist against the north wall of the period I section. The placement of the stair possibly coincided with the change of roof pitch over the kitchen ell. By lowering the roof pitch, the attic floor of the ell was no longer accessible from the second floor of the period I section. The new hewn and pegged rafters replaced the original ones. Lath and plaster covered the exposed joists in both the period I and period II first floor sections at this time.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=466 height=732 src="LambornHouse_files/image028.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View of the Period III staircase from the east room of the first floor.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=492 height=369 src="LambornHouse_files/image029.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Detail of rafter joint in kitchen ell</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=359 height=436 src="LambornHouse_files/image030.gif"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period III - Second Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>The configuration of the second floor of the period I section also changed at this time. A similar stair as the one on the first floor replaces the original stair giving access to the attic. The three-room plan survives partially except for the fact that the two rooms on the east side of the second floor become smaller and the large open space on the west side is made into a smaller room and an L-shaped stair landing. The two rooms on the east side receive light from windows in the east gable end and windows in the north and south wall. The new room in the southwest corner of the second floor receives light from a single window in the south wall. The central window in the south wall lights the stair landing. Part of the stair landing provides space for a built-in closet. Narrow beaded boards cover the exterior and evidence suggests that lath and plaster covered the interior. Lath and plaster also covers the whitewashed ceiling joists. </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=437 height=586 src="LambornHouse_files/image031.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View of new period III stairs leading to attic from second floor</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=459 height=612 src="LambornHouse_files/image032.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Detail of wallpaper and trim in attic stairwell.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in; line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><img width=462 height=827 src="LambornHouse_files/image033.jpg"></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>View of door to stair passage from new Period III second floor southwest room</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><b>Period IV</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=414 height=444 src="LambornHouse_files/image034.gif"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period IV - First Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=416 height=441 src="LambornHouse_files/image035.gif"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period IV - Second Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'>Most of the changes taking place during period IV occur on the exterior of the building. The owner adds two enclosed porches, one against the south elevation covering the central bay, and one along the east elevation of the kitchen wing. The stucco finish most likely dates from this period, which gave the building a uniform look. The application of the stucco - which has a metal mesh base - meant the removal of the belt courses on the south and north elevation. A small stretch of the belt course survives in the attic of the kitchen wing.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><i><span style='color:black'>Before the New Garden Township purchased the house and farmland for parkland use, the Kelleher family owned the property for two generations. Although the large barn burned in 1937, tenants lived in the house. Fire, however, also nearly claimed the house on February 11, 1955. Firefighters put out a burning roof ignited by sparks from the chimney. The fire destroyed the roof and two finished third floor rooms, with damages estimated at $5000. The owner replaced the chimneys and the roof and the house continued to serve as a dwelling until the Township's purchase. </span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><b>Period V</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=426 height=460 src="LambornHouse_files/image036.gif"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period V - First Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=426 height=436 src="LambornHouse_files/image037.gif"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>Period V - Second Floor Plan</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'><img width=216 height=162 src="LambornHouse_files/image038.jpg" align=left hspace=12>During the second half of the twentieth century the final and probably most intrusive changes occurred. Due to the fire, two new chimneystacks replaced the original chimneystacks. A small brick stack against the west gable provided ventilation for the heater in the cellar and the owner built a large exterior chimneystack against the east gable end. Very little evidence remains of the original relieving arches in the cellar. A large fieldstone faced fireplace against the east gable wall replaced the earlier one. The owner also placed a new fieldstone hearth along the entire length of the east gable wall. Incorporated into the hearth is a date stone with the initials "D B" with a diamond and a heart shape and the date "1804." There is, however, no relationship between the stone and the house. The owner furthermore installed a bathroom on each floor in the northwest corner of the period I section. Except for the addition of the bathroom and a closet on the second-floor little changed about the configuration. At some point a door closed off the stair leading to the attic.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'><img width=576 height=401 src="LambornHouse_files/image039.jpg"></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%'>The period V fireplace in the east room of the first floor.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><i><span style='color:black'>In 2004, the Lamborn house got a new use. The Township retrofitted the building to become a Boy Scout meeting place and to house the Early Medical Response Team.  </span></i></p> </div> </body>