Modern Kitchen

The galley style offers ample countertop and cabinetry space. The updating left in-tact the portions of the room that were uncovered in the 2008 remodel. Robin Bardo; owner of HOMES from 2017 to 2021 partially updated the kitchen in 2020 with new slab granite countertops and a subway tile backsplash. Legend says that behind the stove there is a tunnel that was used for the underground railroad that connected to the house to the woods on the property. It was closed it off when they made the original kitchen and supposedly the tunnel is still underground somewhere. 

​

Bruce Saunders; owner of HOMS from 2000 to 2017 describes the room in his historical accounting dated 2016: "The Root Cellar (Modern Kitchen): The old-fireplace kitchen and adjacent root cellar (new kitchen) are the only two rooms on the same level. The root cellar floor was originally dirt. The frame of an original window pierces the wall along the winder stairs. About 1900, a door and window at the west end were added to the root cellar, probably by Mary Morris, and a "modern" kitchen was installed with all surfaces covered in Masonite and plaster lath. This was re-renovated by Jeff Martin in 2008. The decision was made to keep intact and unpainted any of the old surfaces present, such as original walls and woodwork. The floor, which was still dirt under the stairway, was excavated and sieved and such artifacts as a gold ring, 1831 penny, numerous bones, bottles, marbles toys, etc. were recovered. The original wall with the old window (back of the winder stairs) was exposed and left as-found. Note the fireplace beam exposed in the root cellar wall; a rough tree ring count indicates this log was a sapling ~ 1600. The present kitchen floor is made of left-over logs from the log cabin at the north end of the property  (ca. 1800). The winder stairs to the second floor are mostly replaced. The ceiling beams in the 1900 kitchen were exposed when the plaster lath was removed in 2008.