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Stanton House Virtual Tour (Audio Described)
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Welcome to the Elizabeth Stanton House. The house is located at 32 Washington Street in the incorporated village of Seneca Falls, New York. It is located in a residential area, a short distance from the center of the village. The house predates most of the homes in the neighborhood – some of which were built as late as the mid-twentieth century. This audio description utilizes the hours on a clock to provide directional information. 12 o’clock represents the area at the screen's top and center. Nine o’clock represents the middle of the left side.
The house sits on two acres. At six o’clock there is a metal information display. It is located on the corner of the lot, several feet from the sidewalk. on the lawn starting at seven o’clock and running all the way to 11 o’clock is a cement sideway. The house, which Elizabeth Stanton referred to as “The Center of the Rebellion”, situated at 12 o’clock. A large horse chestnut tree is between the house and the sidewalk. This is a “witness tree,” which has stood since the time that the Stanton family lived in the house.
The house is a 2+1⁄2-story white wood-clapboard structure with dark green trim on the shutter framed windows The house is L shape and covered by a gabled roof. The house consists of what historians refer to as the “north wing,” two stories” and a south wing of one story. The south wing is believed to be the original structure built in the 1830s. Historians think the north wing was added in the 1940s. Stanton lived here from 1847 to 1862.
The house sits a good distance back from the street. There is no landscaping in the yard. there is a cement walkway from the sidewalk up to the house that runs from six to twelve o’clock. The house has an open porch that runs the length of the south wing. The entrance to the home sits in the middle of the house. There are two porch columns and two steps from the walkway up to the porch.
Like the front of the house, there is no landscaping in the backyard any longer. The back side of the south wing of the house is painted in two colors–Half is painted white, matching the rest of the house. The other half is painted in a warm gray to show where an additional kitchen wing was attached to the home. A bulkhead cellar and four stairs leading to the yard are attached to the grey section. There is one small window in the entire back of the south wing. It is located where the south and north sides of the home meet.
In the North wing, the two-story section of the house, there are two small windows on the second floor, and two sets of tall glass doors on the first floor. These doors opened to a rear porch, which would have had a broad view of Stanton’s farm and barn. All the windows are framed with dark green shutters.
The house's interior is not furnished, and there is no artwork on the walls. The house has wood flooring made of wide, thick planks.. At nine o’clock, there is a doorway leading to another room. At 11 o’clock, there is a closed door to a front closet. The curving staircase starts at around one o’clock, about a foot away from the closet. The gap is about three feet deep until it meets the “u” bend of the staircase. A window at the far back wall butts up against the stair landing. There are four steps leading up to the landing. The banister is stained a dark brown while the steps are painted bright white. The walls in the foyer are covered in a grey and white patterned wallpaper. All of the wallpaper in this house are reproductions of Stanton's designs. Archeologists discovered bits of the wallpaper hidden in the wall cavities and in old panels under the porch.
This room is either a dining room or a front parlor where the family would have received guests. There is a fireplace, located at twelve o’clock, and two doors framed on each side of the fireplace. Two white stanchions are positioned in front of the open door to the left of the fireplace, letting visitors know they may not access the back area. The door to the right of the fireplace is closed. All of the woodwork in the room is painted to look like wood grain.
On the left side of the room, at around 10 ‘o’clock, near the door protected by the stanchions, there is another door. This door is open, revealing a closed storm door behind the wood door.. The storm door is a blueish-gray modern metal door. It is painted in the same gray as the section of the back of the house.
The wallpaper is a damask style with a white background with green, red, and gold.
The wood floor is covered with a woven fiber mat called a dugget.
The rear parlor in the north wing of the house has two large floor-to-ceiling windows that resemble in size and appearance as modern-day sliding doors. The wallpaper is a striped pattern design in soft grays over a white background. There is a neutral-colored woven dugget on the floor, which sits atop painted canvas flooring.
This front parlor served as Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “home office.” The room contains the one piece of furniture in the house- a writing desk. It is located around twelve o’clock and stands in between two windows. The room has a large fireplace located at two o’clock. The woodwork in the room is a honey oak color. It is a painted-on grain style that was popular during this era.
Most of the first floor also has canvas drop cloths tacked onto the floor beneath. Elizabeth Cady Stanton often complained about the drudgeries of housework and preferred the easier-to-clean canvas and woven flooring to rugs or carpets. With seven children and many guests often running in and out, it is not difficult to see her point.
There is a landing at the top of the staircase on the second floor. A portion of the landing protrudes over the downstairs hallway. The ceiling and spindles on the guardrail are white.
Upstairs there is a large 16 x15 foot room with a low, canted ceiling, white walls and wide wood plank flooring. Two south-facing windows run against the outside wall of either side of a chimney. Two stanchions connected by a museum rope are located in front of the window closest to eleven o’clock. They block access to a narrow staircase that comes up from the dining area below.
This bedroom has two windows located at one and four o’clock. The floorboards are wood planks that have been painted yellow. The wallpaper has neutral colors with a tilted square pattern.
Elizabeth’s primary bedroom is 17x13 and has a fireplace and three windows. The fireplace spans from two to four o’clock. Like the rest of the upstairs, the floorboards are large, painted, wood planks. The wallpaper is striking in that it is very different from everything else in the house. The pattern is a muted damask striped pattern with overlays of bright Kelly-green leaves.
Description
Audio Described video of the 3D tour of the Stanton House. Accompanies the Matterport 3D tour function.
Duration
6 minutes, 21 seconds
Date Created
03/28/2023
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