Demolishing the Summer Kitchen

We had to take this down almost immediately after moving in, due to our home owners insurance not liking it.  Luckily we had Peter's family step up to help, along with a couple new-us-neighbors. 

Dormer Windows added after 1900. 

Doors to the summer kitchen.
Not sure what the left hand one was for.  It was very narrow. 

A daunting task, just to clean it out.  

We hired Mahan Slate to remove and save all slate tiles for us. 

Peter looking down through the hole that the log elevator went through.  

Door to 2nd floor kitchen.  

There was a small workspace built into the end of the attic space.
It had horsehair plaster and two very thick wood slab work benches. 

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Up there, that is where the 5-seater outhouse was.  

We ended up hiring someone with a log truck to help take down the largest beams and get them into the barn for storage.  

The diagonal beam stretches from this photo to the next.  It was the back beam , and is one solid piece that ran the entire  length of the summer kitchen.