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This is the front step of the Josiah Dennis Manse. It is a millstone or a stone that was used for grinding grain in a windmill or water wheel. Many old Cape Cod style houses have millstones for front steps. This looks to me like it was a bedstone or a bottom stone. The bedstone was the bottom stone mounted in a fixed position while the runner stone was mounted on the mill spindle and turned or ground on top of the bedstone or bottom stone. The grooves were to move the grain to the edges of the stone after it was ground.
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The millstone looks real nice as a door step. If anyone is interested, I have a collection of antique millstones for sale. They are becoming hard to find, and are quite expensive. If interested, call 423-727-6486
Posted by Jim Wills from Northeast Tennessee on 10/24 at 07:50 PMMy husband and I are going to retire in July. We are headed back to our home in Shell Knob, Missouri.
It is on Tablerock Lake. Our home is several blocks from the lake itself, and sits on “BIG BASS BEND”.
It is a classic cape, built very inexpensively by the previous owner. I hated it from the get go because although it is a true one and one half story, it has a sharply angled roof over the one car garage, which sucks! I hate it! Well, we converted the garage into a small family room. We added a doorway to the garage door space by going inward two feet and angling the sides so they speak to the door. That leaves a natural overhang so the doorway is covered a little. I really love that! But now that I have read your website, we will be replacing the home depot door with a wooden door and oh how cute that will be~! The driveway pad is slanted up to the door and we are going to build a small deck ontop of it to make it level.
That will add the perfect wooden touch. The house is vinyl sided! Grey, of course. But ugh! Well, good.
After reading your descriptions, the interior of the house is a snap! We are going to have a great time in there! I can barely wait to get back there! We have a restaurant in Historic Downtown Provo, Utah. We just opened it a few months ago. But my hubby is too tired. You can tweet us! We started the store in Shell Knob! But we had to close that one to open the other because we are mom and pop. Anyway, we might reopen that one and sell this one. We don’t know. Playing it by ear. But my hubby made and awesome wall finish in the Provo store. I am a mural artist and appreciated the wonderful texture. So now that will go into our home in Shell Knob, and be very very cape cod! I will mural over that! Your description and the griss mill, the whole thing is such inspiration for us! We are going to build a griss in the front yard for a small coy pond. It should be a blast! Thank you for restoring the past, because this little chubby artist is going to restore a bit of it in Shell Knob. And yes, we are going to build a small fireplace upstairs and put shells all over it! Thank You! You inspired me!Sheri Friis
Posted by Sheri Friis from Mapleton, Utah on 02/27 at 09:15 AM