Oakenshield's Story

Click on the first photo to start the story of Oakenshield

So called because the L'Episcopo family, who owned this property for ~ 80 years, used to have all their meals there.

In the beginning, he was called the "Chow House,"so named because the L'Episcopo family that owned the property for ~ 80 years used to have all their meals here.

His pretty sign (which we still have)

It was a happy place where the entire family would gather.

Picture of the Chow House taken inside a photo album (no the place is not being hit by lightening).

The L'Episcopo family, who bought the place in the 1930s.

Not a great picture (also taken inside an album), but here is a picture of the L'Episcopos chowing down.

We thought long and hard about renaming it, and settled on "Oakenshield" after Thorin Oakenshield, the warrior dwarf from "The Hobbit". P.S. Janine made this sign at the Adirondack Folk School (AFS) "Letter Carving" class. We love the AFS!

Janine swears this is the only picture of Thorin Oakenshield on the Internet.

Here's how it looked when we bought it.

It had a bar! And freakish clown liquor bottles.

During demo...

We found out during demo that the building was actually two buildings pulled together in the center and re-roofed. The far left bedroom was once an ice house, as indicated by the concrete footer and about two feet deep of sawdust.

The old icehouse (aka, the left Bedroom, (or Bedroom 1 on AirBnB)

Where the ice house meets the rest of the house. Because this was three areas pulled together, and not built professionally, the building was really twisted.