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Project news feed resumed
For any of you patient souls who might still be looking at this site for news of the Old Medary Ville project, I hope you’ll forgive my long absence. During the past summer and fall two more properties have been added to the project work.
One of them is the brick house built by Simpson Low at 601 East Pearl Street in Medaryville, directly north of the old hotel.
The other is the Nelson Randle House, located just north of Moody’s Road in Barkley Township, Jasper County.
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Posted by Brian Capouch on Nov 03, 2007
Cool and mysterious
One of my longtime goals, finally realized this weekend, was to dredge up the old cabinet I found last year in the basement at Dr. Hackley’s, get it upstairs and brushed off, and see what it was all about.
The cabinet is in two pieces, and it wasn’t clear until it was moved out of the cellar that the two went together. But indeed they do, as can easily be seen in the picture above, which was taken in the kitchen at the Hackley place. Note the old kitchen wallpaper.
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Posted by Brian Capouch on Nov 27, 2006
It was tougher than it looked
We got the roof on today. Still some work to do—the chimney needs flashed yet, and there’s still nothing where the “soffit” would go.
The roofing crew was pretty much ready to never see the house again when they got finished. While the exact quote escapes me, it went something along the lines of “if there had been one single piece of that roof on either side that was square, it would have been a lot easier.”
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Posted by Brian Capouch on Nov 26, 2006
In 1965 she recalled the streets of her childhood
I am going to reprint here what has become a valuable document for me in my efforts to paint an accurate picture of Medaryville’s past. In 1965, Flossie (Low) Poisel, who grew up in Medaryville, wrote the piece below for the local paper, The Medaryville Herald. It is a memory-generated “walking tour” of the town, beginning on the north side of Main Street at the railroad tracks and proceeding east, then crossing the street, coming back all the way west along the south side of Main Street, then crossing and going back east again, finishing up at the point of beginning. Later on I’ll have some commentary based on this recollection.
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Posted by Brian Capouch on Nov 24, 2006
Origins of this building cloudy
But it’s old!!
Hopefully before the weekend is out, the pile of OSB and roll roofing that can be barely seen in the shadows off to the right of this picture will replace the crappy-looking (and leaky) tarp that we have up there now acting as temporary cover for this building.
The building, known as a drummer’s house, has been associated with the hotel pretty much since the beginning, and there are some intriguing clues, though none of them what could be called airtight, as to just when this building was built, and by whom.
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Posted by Brian Capouch on Nov 24, 2006
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