—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 2, 1977
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Formerly a workshop, the kitchen in the Landis
guest house shows the white plastered wails, the
ceiling beams, and the chair rail.
A touch
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the advent of big luxury
cars, but the door remained.
“We replaced it with a
window," Mrs. Landis
explains, looking out through
the glass toward the barn.
The living room, itself, is
done in Williamsburg red
with white plastered walls
and partially exposed ceiling
beams. It also features a fire
corner, or walk-in fireplace
which the Landis’s did a lot
of work on.
“We replastered the
inside,” points out Mrs.
Landis, and we replaced the
floor bricks, but the mantel
is an original.”
The Landis’s did do some
constructive tampering in
the living room for the sake
of beauty. Originally, the
ceiling beams had not been
exposed, but when the
remodeling was done, part of
the plaster was broken away
from them and they were
refinished.
Mrs. Landis’s father-in
law, Earl, who previously
owned the property, and who
knows the history of the farm
better than anyone else,
explained that the main log
in the home is solid walnut
which is indicative of the age
of the building.
“There were lots of walnut
trees in this area in the late
1700’s”, he says.
The floor in the living
room, as well as in the
upstairs, is solid wood.
“Most of the floors are
authentic, although the
living room floor was
replaced from an old home in
Leola,” notes Mrs. Landis.
The Landis’s sanded them
down and varnished them.
All of the doors in the
home, as well as most of the
hardware, are authentic,
also. Probably the most
outstanding portal is the
Indian door used as the main
entrance into the home. An
indian door has an extra
panel on the outside which
slides over the glass in the
upper half and fastens into
place to protect the window
panes. These panes, in the
Landis’s Indian door, as in
most windows in the house,
are made of the old wavy
glass now much sought after
by antique lovers.
“We have as much old
glass in the house as
possible,” points out Mrs.
Landis. They also have as
Dwarfed by the brick farm house to its right, the the Lancaster Co. Farmers Association Heritage
“old house” of the Earl Landis home will be part of Trail Home tour on April 20.
many original pieces of
hardware as they could find,
with the predominant piece
the German latch.
“What we didn’t have, we
collected at flea markets and
antique shops,” she
explained.
The upstairs bedroom
feature another type of door
-the Christian door, with
original latches, as well.
The master bedroom is
done in Williamsburg green,
and the second bedroom in
Williamsburg gold. The
smaller bedroom has a
unique feature-an extending
brace, originally meant to
“hold the bouse up”, which
has since lost its usefulness.
Instead of removing the
brace from the room, the
Landis’s refinished it in the
same manner 'as the ceiling
beams in the living room and
use it as a bench.
The interior of the home is
not the only segment of the
house which was refinished,
however. After sandblasting
the stone on the outside, they
remortered and re-roofed
the dwelling. They also used
the Williamsburg colors on
the exterior.
After the six months of
work and planning that went
into restoring the home, the
Landis’s won’t even be using
it themselves. Instead, they
plan to make it into a tourist
guest home, and are
presently having their
brochures made up.
“We kept all the
furnishings as simple as
possible because of the use it
will be getting,” said Mrs.
Landis with a smile. But she
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