hi everyone my name is ken welcome to this house
today we are touring the historic Hezekiah Elgin house located in
clarksville missouri this house was built in 1845. stick around we're about to go inside
do
before we go inside i want to take a moment to give a huge shout out to megan miller of
canon realty inc for putting us in contact with the owners so that we could film here
this house is currently listed on the market if you would like more information on this house
please check out the listing information that's posted down in the description below
let's go see what's inside we just entered inside of this house
and we actually came through the italian net portion of the house which was added in the 1860s
something really interesting that we can see right off the bat is it has the original
noodle post and the original staircase so let's take a moment to really look at this
also inside of this foyer are these baseboards and these have been fold to look like marble
and that's just another one of those really amazing details that we find in this house
at the end of the stair hall is the entrance to the dining room and we can see that it has
a door with a transom window up above it so first we'll get to that in just a moment but
first let's head on into the parlor so follow me on and here something that we notice immediately
is it has the original hardwood floors that were installed at the time that this house was built
it also has this beautiful fireplace over here and this was actually imported from italy it's italian
marble it was shipped up the mississippi river straight to this house and then the baseboards
that we can see running along the perimeter of this room have been fold to look like the same
marble and honestly they did a fantastic job doing that over on this side of the parlor it
has the original window encasements and even has some of the original panes of glass still inside
of the windows and once again this is from the 1860s now if we look up we can see reproductions
of the ceiling medallion done in plaster with a reproduction of the chandelier as well
leaving the parlor we're now going to walk through this boxed archway
and this is going to take us into the dining room so follow me on in here and let's begin to look
around so one of the first things we notice is that the wood trim has these pediments on top of
it that kind of bring it to a triangular shape and that's not something we've seen yet in this house
and one of the reasons for this change is we're now in the federal portion of the house the
part of the house that was built in the 1840s so let's just take a moment to look around the space
and then up above us on these walls we can see stenciling that runs up to the ceiling and then
there's gold leaf trim that kind of delineates the spaces for the different patterns that we see here
and that was all added by richard cantrell the former owner of this house who restored it to his
former glory and even ran it as a house museum for a short period so leaving the dining room we're
now crossing into a sitting room and once again this is in that original part of the house that
was built in the 1840s in the federal style so we can see that it has a matching fireplace over here
though it is in a different finish but it has the exact same shape to it and then once again we've
got elaborate trim work elaborate wallpapering all done by richard cantrell and there's also
a reproduction of the plaster medallion and a crystals chandelier that's also a reproduction
in this house now something interesting to notice is that the windows on this wall over here
are a little bit different than the room that we saw over there they do not have the triangular
pediments on top of them but some of them do have their original panes of glass leaving the
sitting room we're now going to walk into the kitchen and this is probably where the original
staircase would have been over here with a sink in the refrigerator are and we'll actually show you
proof of that whenever we get up to the bedroom that's directly above this so this kitchen is
just adorable it has this amazing giant porcelain sink with bead board on the side here and then
also fabric skirting that runs below it now this would have originally been the heating kitchen
and the actual kitchen where the food was made would have been right below this in the basement
leaving the kitchen we are now going to head up to the second floor so let's cut back
through these rooms and as we make our way to the staircase i'll tell you a little bit
about the history of the house so the original owner also owned a general store here in town
and that's believed to have been located just up the river when he married his wife that's
when this portion the italianette portion of the house was added because she came
from money and she just wanted a larger house so it's just one of those like fun
stories about why the house kind of changed the way it did so let's head on upstairs
as we arrive at the top of the steps one of the first things we notice is this
giant pointed arch gothic window behind me and this is actually believed to have
been added to the house at a later date so as we arrive at the top of the stair hall
we notice that there's this balcony here it feeds directly into the wall now it's believed that this
balcony would have originally traveled all the way around to this side and it would have been
open over here and then the bathroom would have been added at a later date so we'll start off by
walking into this bedroom directly in front of us and this room is really spacious once again
this is in that italianette edition of the house so we can see that it has these beautiful windows
over here in the corner this allows in a lot of natural light over on this side it has more
windows of the same size and this opens out onto a porch above the veranda on the front of the house
coming off of this bedroom we now enter into the bathroom i mentioned off the stair hall
and there are some just gorgeous details in here so first we'll notice the bead board extending up
the wall there's a ledge as well and then really intricate crown molding at the top with rosettes
and then this sink is absolutely beautiful we see the theme of rosettes continued on both the
handles and on these engravings here so let's just take a moment to really look around this bathroom
passing out of the bathroom we're now going to cut back through the top of the stair hall and we're
going to come to another bedroom so this bedroom is back on the federal style side of the house
and we can see that it has an original entrance over here with the original hardware and what
are believed to be the original door knobs as well so let's just take a closer look at those
cutting through this bedroom we're now passing again into another bedroom
and at one point the federal style side of the house was set up as a stagecoach
so we can imagine people coming into their individual rooms from these doors that lead
out here to the sleeping porch and something we're noticing in this room is that this is
the first plaster medallion we're seeing that has gold leafing on it and once again from it
is suspended a crystal chandelier that is a reproduction of what might have been here earlier
moving on from this bedroom we now come to the final bedroom and this is believed to have been
the servants quarters so we can see that there are a couple of windows here this would have
originally been open out to the porch but right now it's set up as a closet so we're not going
to go in there because the owners do have some personal items stored in there but that is that
section on the outside of the house and i'll actually show that to you right now that has
been closed in off of the porch so this would have originally had access to the sleeping porch
now that we've seen the entire house let's go talk
to the owners of this home about their journey with this house
thank you so much for opening up the doors to your beautiful house for us it was such an immense
pleasure to tour this and just enjoy all of these period accurate details um why don't you tell our
audience a little bit about yourselves my name is randy baldwin and i've restored quite a few homes
in georgia and florida and this one in missouri i'm a preservationist i i restore homes i don't
rehab them i'm a you know restoration all the way um and i just live and love her i love him
you know what i want to do my name is tara taylor um yep i come along for the adventure and um for
the uh it means a lot to me to watch these houses become something that you know will
continue on because a lot of times when we see them they're not in great shape at all and um
yeah it's good for them to stay stay preserved it's very important that's wonderful and i love
that you both have this kind of mission about you to take on these older houses and restore them so
what first inspired you to get into this well i i bought my first victorian house in 2006. and that
was my first restoration i had i was in the music business so i got out of the music because i owned
a smoothie king i had a lot of businesses and i had run into some money so i what i wanted to do
was to focus on restoring this victorian house and it was in florida then came the real estate bus i
bought another home across the street which was a similar 1890s victorian it was a bank foreclosure
it was almost at the rate of being demolished it was boarded up the whole nine yards and i restored
it and i fixed it up sold it 2014 and i just kept going and i bought an 1856 plantation home it was
known as the chaney newcomer house another save from cloud preservation i bought it from them
marietta mariota georgia and i've restored that then we went over to macon georgia we restored
an italian 1883 uh home there we restored an old church from the 1870s and finally we're here
um well that was beautiful and this helped caught our attention because of richard cottrell and
because of his work in it already and um we just realized that his legacy needed to
carry on as well because he was such an important um artist and antique uh person in the community
wonderful man i'm so excited for you guys to enter into this next chapter of your life where
you're going to find another old home and restore it and hopefully you guys can find
some wonderful stewards to take care of this house and to treasure it as much as you have
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