Modern Sunroom

Today, the sunroom is appointed with a pellet stove, a half bathroom, carpeted flooring and windows on two sides. The exterior wall of the original home is exposed, and an original exterior window looks into the kitchen. There are two doors that access the modern kitchen and the modern dining room.

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Amanda + Ernest Brant described the room in a document estimated to be from the 1991 Muncy Home Tour: Family Room was added in in 1980 against original sand and stone section of house. Some accounts say Job Packer owned 3 acres in Elizabethtown (now Pennsdale)  and built a house on this land in 1790. it consisted of three stories. The kitchen was originally a wine and vegetable cellar with earth floor. The only access to the 2nd and 3rd story was over dirt floor and up short winding stairway. Half way up steps was an outside window. This was closed when the second section was added and now is used as a closet. Also entrance door and window entering kitchen from family room was added when second section was added.

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Bruce Saunders; owner of HOMS from 2000 to 2017 describes the sunroom in his historical accounting dated 2016: A third addition to the house is an enclosed family room added in 1985, on the west side. This was originally an open porch or shed (which also housed the exterior of a bee-hive oven whose door can be seen in the main fireplace of the adjacent kitchen room). The family room was added by Elwood Brant and his wife, Ione. They were the second of three generations of Brant's to live here, spanning about 80 years. One son, Roger, still lives in the area. Elwood continued to visit the house regularly until his death in 2008. 

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In 2022 we updated the sunroom by installing in-ceiling recessed puck lighting, new Plantation shutters, painting the window frames white and the walls a light grey (SW 7015 Repose Grey).