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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service ? POW National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - - Page 1 The Faucett' House retains the following exterior architectural features , all apparently original : chimneys of oversize . brick laid in common bond , doors with six raised panels , six - over - six and four - over - four sash windows , wide molded door and window surrounds , and boxed molded eaves . The front porch has slender chamfered posts and no railing . The placement of openings on the main facade is asymmetrical , with two individual doors flanked by one window to the east and two windows to the west . The wall surface beneath the porch is flush - sheathed . The original floor plan is basically intact and is an unusual , perhaps unique variation on the standard center hall one - room - deep plan of the Federal period . The house has a center hall dividing two large rooms , with the usual front door opening into the center hall but with an unusual second door opening into the east room . The stair , an enclosed . type with winders , rises in the rear corner of the hall . The . rear wing , believed to have housed the kitchen is now one large room . However prior to the 1950s a small , windowless room accessible from the front east room occupied a portion . of the wing . This room was incorporated into the kitchen in the 1950s . On the second floor are three bedrooms , one on each side of the hall and one behind and only accessible from the east bedroom : The unusual floor plan reinforces the local tradition that the house was an inn and tavern , and that the larger , east room . and adjacent kitchen served as the inn while the smaller west . room was private family quarters . The two doors would have allowed some privacy for the family , since one door would have opened to the " p.ubltcroom " and the other door to the center hall . The windowless room might have been for provisions . Upstairs , the east bedroom might have served the family and the adjacent west side bedrooms the travellers . The following interior architectural features are apparently original : random width wood sheathed walls , wide board pine floors , six raised -panel doors with some strap iron hinges and box locks , molded door and window surrounds , and five Federal style mantels . The mantels in the two front rooms have tripartite designs , with raised panels , while the mantels in the kitchen and second floor are simpler designs . with raised panels . During the 1938 - 1940 - restoration , an asphalt shingle roof was put on the Faucett House . Modern plumbing was installed , and a modern kitchen added to the south side where a covered rear entry was located . A pre - restoration documentary of the house shows a three - bay wide front shed porch . The owners removed that porch and erected the present full facade . shed porch . In the kitchen wing , because ' of severe deterioration , the walls and roof were rebuilt , although the chimney and fireplace mantel were retained . Electricity was installed in the late 1940s .