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The best feature of this tiny bedroom- the two windows with a view of the Green Mountains. Not big enough to add in a closet. L-shaped. Many a grandchild remembers sleeping here. Two secret peek holes created by one grandchild. You could lay in bed and see who was coming up the stairs! Very useful if you were reading late with a flashlight.

This is possibly the most beautiful bedroom in the house. Facing south doesn't hurt any room. So lit up and cheerful. I have always been fond of Capes...with the two bedrooms upstairs that match on either side of the house. I love symmetry I guess. It doesn't matter that there are only two windows in each room...they fill up a whole wall. This room also has a beautiful wide-board floor, though parts of it are kind of 'cut up.' I'm not sure why. Could these boards be saved and reused? I certainly would like to try. As I have mentioned in my Design & Planning Posts, the whole upstairs will be for guests, but this room in particular will be the most hospitable for visitors. It will be known as the PA Bedroom (see previous reference for explanation) and will host my son & wife when they come, and any other special visitors that come just as a couple. Jill and John used this room in summer. Who else has slept here? I have not.

I learned that this bedroom was updated by Marion (Cooley) Stouder (a daughter of Harry Cooley who bought the house in 1953). The Stouder family visited often and spent a lot of time at this house. This room tilts dramatically to the north and the floor can make you a bit dizzy as you walk on it these days.

Installed when Harry Cooley's mother moved in (as were the wide stairs and the special handrails) as she was elderly. Anna Hale Cooley 1867-1972. You do the math! She ended up moving out to Ada, Ohio to live with her son Oscar Cooley. Did the stairs get to be too much? Who can answer in the comments below?

I would love to save the bannisters from the two sets of stairs. Most people prefer the fancier one from the fireplace room stairs (it is curlier, more traditional). I prefer the one from the main house...it's simple. The doors don't seem that old, but the two that do, I'd like to save as reminders of the old house. A handle that really doesn't open anything but looks old and was added to the wood panelling near the stairwell- I will save that. I like these old 'extra' handrails on the stairs too. The wavy old glass... I'll add more to this "TO BE SAVED" list soon. Here is another banister that could be saved. This one is in the '2nd House'...the one with the fireplace.

Yesterday I got to meet with Jill and John Tucker (son of Idora Cooley Tucker- daughter of Harry Cooley, owner of the house in 1953). He and Jill are the family members who most recently lived in the house, moving to their own place down the road in 2016. He took good care of the house, especially since he is a painter by trade. I look forward to hearing more of their memories. John showed me this little cupboard door, deep in a closet. Hand-hewn, it could be as old as ~200 years, but also could have been added after that. Amazing to imagine all the hands over the years that have opened that door; it is historically relevant. The closet is located in the upstairs front bedroom of the '2nd House' (the section above the fireplace room). It will be carefully removed, saved, and hopefully reused in the rebuilt house. John says the secret passageway is located more towards the front of this closet. Thank you John!