The front room. This is a part of the original structure built circa 1834.
This green pocket door separates the front room from a
small room to the right.
This small, wood burning stove was the only source of heat for the entire house.
The front door is not original to the house.
These wood columns were installed in the late 20th century. Their purpose is unknown.
Many of the single pain windows were broken allowing animals access to the vacant home.
The green pocket door leads into this small room with painted green panneling.
Window that looks out on the drive way from the green panel room.
The kitchen is located in an addition that was added in the mid-20th century. To the right, you can see the bathroom which is also a part of the addition.
This small storage space sits at the top of the basement stairs.
These stairs lead from the front room to the upstairs.
Walls made out of 2x4's and eight inch plywood had recently been built upstairs to create rooms.
The original hand hewn logs can be seen upstairs.
An upstairs window.
Another view from the top of the stairs.
An upstairs closet.
This upstairs window over looks Adams Street, named for Vanita Adams who lived in Pumpkin Hill for over 40 years.
Over 95 cubic yards of garbage were taken from the house and yard.
View of the bottom of the stairs and beyond (to the left) is the wood burning stove. Directly under this pile of garbage, and under the carpet, a heating vent was discovered proving that the house did have a heating system at one point. The furnace and heat ducts have been removed, we believe by former owner Sandra Richards.
Sandra Richards collected antiques. This pie safe has been stored in the sun room addition of the house since her death.
Her stove is out in the sunroom as well. Shown here is top of the stove...
and the bottom.
Her piano has been turned on its side and stored here for many years as well. This view looks through the sliding glass doors from inside the kitchen.
This view shows the addition if you are standing in the kitchen area.
In the basement the stone foundation for the original part of the house can clearly been seen.
The basement.
In the basement you can also see the original logs cut out of the virgin Michigan forests to hold up this frontier house.
This floor joist has been cut into recently.
This one still has the tree bark attached.
The basement held even more garbage than the sun room.
Sandra collected "primitive" antiques. Those everyday objects that early pioneers depended on to perform the activities of living and raising a family. Shown here are two of her wooden bowls.
There was another wood burning stove in the basement. A civil War cannon ball was also found down here. The owner was later informed that it was full of black powder and highly unstable. The bomb squad had to destroy it.
This was the door that lead out of the cellar until the sunroom was added above it.
Back up stairs in the kitchen, these vents near the ceiling allowed heat from the woodburning stove to heat the upstairs rooms.
This picture shows the same opening on the other side of the wall (top of the stairs).
Sandra liked wood windows (this one is in the bathroom) and used them throughout the addition. We do not believe that any of the windows are original to the 1830's era.
The bathroom is located next to the kitchen in the 20th century addition.
The bath tub.
The bathroom is the only room in house that looks like it exists in the 21st century.
