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The Miller-Cory House, like most houses of the Colonial period, was build facing the south in order to obtain the most benefit from the rays of the sun. The settlers here employed the same building methods used in England by their ancestry which included, timber framing, a medieval design of architecture; hand-hewn beams, with mortise and tenon joints; and trunnels (tree nails); all methods used in the construction of the Miller-Cory House. The house is three bays wide and one and a half stories high. The foundation is stone with a lime mortar. Clapboard siding covers the two outside sections with horizontal flush boarding on the center section. It is probable that an overhang protected the center section, providing a working porch, while clapboards on the other sections shed water naturally. Paint was an expensive commodity in the colonial period as pigments were not readily available, There were recipes for making paint but it is unlikely that many houses in this area were painted at that time.
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