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Show Form No. 10-300a IHev, 10-741 UNITED STATES DEPART\1ENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF ill-STORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINA nON FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 2 Besides the rear garage additions in 1923 and 1929 and the new south wing in 1929, the house received several smaller alterations when it became the year-round residence of Susanna Emery-Holmes' nephew Harold Lamb around 1923. The single wood-burning stove was replaced wi th a coal- fired hot water central heating system. Several walls were removed and two small front rooms and the old entry hall became the present large living room. A large fireplace was installed, i tschimney replacing an old attic staiX. · The main stair landing waS also enlarged at the expense of a former guest bedroom,and most of thepresent interior woodwork appears to date from this period. ·'Stained glass windows . were removed, and replaced with rectangular pane sash. Scalloped wood or iron 'trim that had fonnerly accented the roof ridges was also removed" all a partof the general 1920s reaction against Victorian "over decoration. II The only major alteration smce that time occurred in the early 1950s when the front porch waS rebuilt. The present shed roof replaced the original mansard on the north . -.sideat, that· time. Today's porch also lacks some of the original Eastlake trim, '. including a second floor balustrade and a knob-and-spindle screen seen beneath the cornice in early photographs . ' Indications remain of the lavish grounds of the early oakwood. FlaIlking the entrance ' to the tree-lined drive are wrought-iron gateposts, and a section of wrought-iron fence can be seenalong the driveway south of the house. The shell-shaped 1923 swimming pool, the cemented-in portion of the original Neff mill pond, is in good condition on . " thelmoll to the north\"est. , There 'is a simp~e tv.'O-room bath house arid the relocated ruins of the power generator shed. nearby .To the south of the pool are taI'InCi.c tennis courts installed in 1931 and used into the 1960s. Mill Creek, which powered the Neff Mill , and later Oakwood's electric generator, flows through the south part of the property. A smaller ditch with sluice gates still intact splits off above the old generator site and flows armIDd .the' north side bf the house ' before rejoining Mill Creek below . .' |
