| Use this floor plan when viewing the photographs to better orient yourself in relationship to the structure itself. To simplify your "virtual visit" right click on the above plan, "save as" and "open" and "print" or just print this page. These methods vary by operating system. This plan is NOT to scale, it's merely a quick sketch of what I remembered when looking through my recent photos. The window openings are not shown, only the door locations. |
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After spending some time dwelling upon the room arrangements I've arrived at the following conclusions: 1) The "Front Room" was the meeting/drinking/story swapping room. I picture it with chairs scattered around and a roaring fire blazing out of the fireplace. 2) Room #3 was probably reserved for Stone family members since it was at the front of the house and had access to the front porch. 3) I'm guessing that Room #2 and Room #4 were reserved for guests such as Faulkner. There is ample area in each for at least 2 or maybe even 3 small beds. I suspect that Room #4 would have been Faulkner's preference since he probably didn't care for the morning sun after a long night of sipping on whiskey. Room #4's windows are on the north side of the lodge...Room #2's windows would have caught the sunrise in late November. 4) Most of the cooking was done outdoors, probably in a open shed of some type. 5) The "Back Porch" probably wasn't added until the lodge was converted into a tenent/rental type property in the post war era. It included a primitive kitchen area that any tenent's wife would have required if not demanded. I didn't notice any type of "indoor plumbing" anywhere in the structure. |