Plaque 16

House and Creamery

It took as though there was no use in driving stakes to mark my lot; for if my own design I choose, it never fits, it suits men ot. But when the hand of him is guide whose plans are wise and ever ture, then am I safe on every side, not matter, what my neighbors do.

Johannes Huber, as the Swiss say, was 'a saving man." He built this single story house in 1878- 79. Balloon frame walls were infilled with adobe brick for insulation, then the board-and-batten was applied. Two rooms stood on a foundation of potrcok in hall-parlor plan. The longer lean-to, added later, was the winter kitchen and the dining room. A tiny summer kitchen at the back was built when crops increased and meals were fixed for large work crews on harvest days. The cookstove was dismanteld every spring and carreid there. Two horizontal windows, which had once enhanced a building elsewhere set as verticals, provided ventilation for the cooks. 

The creamery's walls, constructed c. 1885, are two feet thick. Travtertine linmestone, like that found in eastern Switzerland, was carried from the mineral springs nearby. The cantilevered porch and floor joist masonry are attributes and architecture in Swiss/German style. Through a cellar window, Snake Creek water flowed into a wooden trough, cooling the dairy products kept within. Two rooms upstairs were first a workspace, later bedrooms for the guests. 

In this place dwelt an abundance of peace.