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Estemere 2001
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The Main House looking to the North.
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Main House front view. 
Built in 1887.
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Main House Viewed from the West.  The Conservatory is new.
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The "Two-Car Garage" built in the 1970s.  The Conservatory is to the right.
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The retaining wall and fountain behind the Main House.  Gazebo above.  Built in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
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The Chapel.  Converted from the old chicken coop by the Petersons in the early 1970s.
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The Carriage House.  The left side is original; the three-car garage with loft on the right side was added in 2000.
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Another view of the Carriage House looking North.
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The two-bedroom cottage.  It dates from about 1900.
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The Shed.  It used to sit immediately behind the Kitchen of the Main House.  We moved it in 1999.
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The Gazebo that sits on the corner of the rock wall.  It was moved to its current location from Deer Park, just across Glenway Street, about 1893.
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Street view of the Gazebo.
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Estemere from Glenway Street.
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Overview of the Cottage, Carriage House, and the Chapel.
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Overview of the Carriage House, Chapel, Two-Car Garage, and the Main House.
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Jim Maguire and Friends moving the cupola to Maguireville.  07 July 2001.
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Inside the Conservatory.
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The Kitchen from the Conservatory.
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The Kitchen.
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The 1925 kitchen sink.
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The Kitchen from the "Den."
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A few of Roger's pre-1963 transistor radio collection in the "Radio Room."
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The Sitting Room.  We will use it as a History Room.  Awaiting wallpaper.
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The Parlor from the Dining Room.  Awaiting wallpaper.
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The Parlor from the Main Entry.
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The Dining Room and Parlor fireplaces.
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The new "Mud Room" off the Billiard Room.
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The Billiard Room.  Awaiting wallpaper.
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The 1898 Bust of Admiral Dewey in the alcove of the Billiard Room.  
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Original stained-glass window in the Billiard Room.
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Another view of the Billiard Room looking toward the Mud Room.
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The "Three Muses" on the ceiling of the Billiard Room.  Painted by Delgado in 1964.  Repaired by Rebecca Duke in 2001.
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Cindy & Sam Swancutt celebrate their wedding in the Carriage House after their ceremony in the Chapel on 01 Dec 2001.  To our knowledge, this was the first wedding ever to be held at the Estemere.
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The Master Bedroom.

 


Dining room mural painted by local artist Robin Ward (no relation).