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jI . DEIMSCRIPTION CONDITION CHECK ONE CHECK ONE 009 ._EXCELLENT ._DETERIORATED ZUNALTERED _ORIGINAL SITE YGOOD .�iU1N5 —otALTEAED 000000tMOVED DATE'_ XFAIR ._UNEXPOSED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL ( IF. KNOWN ) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE The Bingham School complex includes a number of buildings from several eras : a large , expansive , multi-stage house , a contemporary smokehouse and well house , and several later outbuildings . :The L- shaped house - is composed of three main sections : the large two -story block , facing northeast , of vernacular Greek Revival character ; a small board -and-batten office attached at the southwest (rear ) corner ; and a long one- and -one-half-story ell at the southeast (rear ) , itself composed of three stages of construction . Uniting the main block and ell is an impressive L- shaped colonnade or porch facing a pleasant courtyard created by the L- shaped arrangement . The oldest - portion of the house is the rear ell , which antedates Bingham ownership and appears to date from the early nineteenth century . This consists of a log structure to the northeast and a frame structure to the southeast , linked by a common massive interior chimney and united by weatherboarding and a gable roof with shed dormers . The log structure appears to be the oldest . Fenestration is irregular , with both four - over - four sash (probably the original ) and six-over- six sash present . The log construc - tion is visible from a kitchen later attached to the east side of the structure . The exterior finish is like that of the entire ell , with mid - nineteenth century doors with four panels , . plain weatherboarding , and at simple molded box cornice . (Doors throughout this section have two or four panels and rather narrow mid -nineteenth century moldings . ) Within , the single room on the first floor is finished with flush sheathing with remnants of a chair rail . An enclosed stair rises in the northeast corner . On the southwest wall a square fireplace opening is framed, by, a large mantel, , which iS , comoomoo posed simplyMired-part molding topped' by a shelf . � Tanking tie mantel tare door - �aays , each with a two- light transom , • framed by a two -part molded frame . In the corners are built - in corner cupboards with glazing above and a paneled door below . The . . . .• Al second - story room is * fin13:shed `with: ' flush sheathing and lit by the shed dormers . The rearmost' sec'tioa of` the ell is * of frame construction , and its age relative to the log section is uncertain ; it seems to be also of early nine�teer>~t_l% pgntury; origin and may have ' `been a freestanding structure for a time or may have been constructed origiinally as an addition to the log structure . The exterior finish is like that of the log structure . The west facade of this section , facing the courtyard , . features a single four -over - four sash, window and , at the south end , two doors side by side , each having four panels , but- with slightly different configuration and slightly different moldings . The north door leads into the first - floor room , the south one up the stair . This section has a brick foundation over a basement which is reached by brick steps leading doivm from the: rear ( east ) porch . Unfinished massive posts said to be crepe myrtle carry the rear porch roof . On the east facade there are two four- over- four sash windows and no door . Similar windows occur on the south side , and the gable is Lnished with a beaded tapered rake board . Within , this section is plastered upstairs and down , except forgthe stair , which is finished with flush sheathing . Narrow , plain baseboards occur . The mantels are of simple Georgian form but the moldings are narrow Federal style ones . The first -- floor mantel features a molded frame and four rectangular flat panels beneath a shelf , and that one the second floor is similar but has only three panels . A number of curious features occur , which will bear farther investigation ii the house is renovated . One