What was the Stutzman home like?

The part of the land west of the Northkill Creek has for over 50 years been classed as woodland is now covered by a dense growth of underbrush and timber. The house was torn down about 1908 by its owner . . . who used part of the foundation stones and other material for a building on his other land. His son-in-law . . . helped take down the house, and states that in his best recollection the house was about 28 by 24 feet, walls 16 ½ feet high, above stone foundation, two stories, the lower 8 feet and the upper 6 feet 6 inches facing the Northkill Creek about 300 feet west.
The first floor had a kitchen the entire width of the house, a very large fireplace at south end with metal covering at top. An enclosed stairway started at end of fireplace. Two other rooms on first floor, one larger than the other. The front and only door on west was divided about the middle, each opening and closing independently. The upper floor had four rooms, each with a window, and three windows on first floor, a little larger than those upstairs, but all smaller than those now in use. Floors, stairway and partitions were of wide pine boards, almost entirely without knots. All carpenter work and the hewn logs of the walls showed almost perfect workmanship, a high tribute to the patient skill of the builders. The gable ends faced practically north and south and had no windows. The three floors supplied the ceiling for the two stories and cellar.

Taken from, Descendants of Barbara Hochstedler and Christian Stutzman, by Harvey Hostetler,Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Pub. House, 1938, 1391 pgs.

There is some information included in the book about how to locate the property, as well as the nearby properties of both John and Jacob Hochstetler (Barbara Stutzman’s brother and father).