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This recent online purchase is a cabinet card photo, taken in 1884, of the William E. and Rebecca (Doudna) Bundy home on today’s Grange Hall Road.
The cabinet card was a style of photograph that was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically 4.25 x 6.50 inches according to online Wikipedia.
Featured on page 364 of the seminal 1922 book by William H. Stanton, Our Ancestors: The Stantons, the author had this to say about the house:
“Erected in 1855 by Joel Doudna. It is built on one- by six-inches board laid flat with edges overlapping nearly an inch alternately, and each course of boards nailed to the one below. The corners were interlocked. It was his intention to cover it with stucco but lap weather boarding was used instead. It was plastered inside. Photographed in 1884 by W.H.S.”
The house was still standing in the late 1970s, vacant and abandoned, when it was photographed for archival purposes. At that time the original siding was covered with with red Insulbrick panels that mimicked brick. Later, it is understood, the house was leveled in a fire.
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