On Taking Up Residence in Collinsport

[DarkLady]

After the original build (which Barn describes so graphically to Vicki) was finished, some later Collinses could have added wings and annexes and so on that we never see.

[Patti Feinberg]

I assume the servants were on the third floor. But was there enough room on the second floor for everybody else??  There needed to be rooms for:  the family (5 rooms?--Joshua/Naomi, Aunt Abigail, Jeremiah, Barnabas, Sarah); the du Pres family (3 rooms?--Andre, Natalie, Josette); the cousins from New York (2 rooms?--Millicent, Daniel). That's 10 rooms!! Even if we assume some doubling up, like Jeremiah/Barnabas, Natalie/Millicent (yeah, right), that would be 8 rooms, which I don't think would fit on the second floor, at least going by the sizes of the rooms we did see.

I don't believe (them being wealthy) that Joshua & Naomi would have shared a room.

Also, I would have thought the servants were on bottom floor ...don't I remember something about Stokes being in a basement-y type room....(FDSMS strikes).

Couldn't some of these visitors have stayed in the various cottages on estate? Although, I personally don't think they existed in 1700s.

Patti

[Josette]

In those instances when they showed Angelique in her room, I definitely had the idea that it was upstairs somewhere.

[DarkLady]

Yes, Josette. The ceiling of Angelique's room is slanted, which means that it must have been under the very eaves of the roof. Before the 1795 story, we see Willie's room, which I think is also in the same spot.

[KMR]

Servants' quarters usually were on the top floor of large houses.