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Mrs. Ann Tatum March 16, 1995 Page 2 in the area around the chimney flue. There is occasional minor cracking on the other interior walls, including a vertical crack about 1 /1 6" wide in the northeast corner over a closet door. To the east is a hall with an adjacent bathroom to the south. In the bathroom there are vertical plaster cracks in the southeast and southwest corners. The window opening over the bathtub is relatively free of cracks. There are some minor cracks around the bathtub, but these do not appear to have structural significance. There are indications of older cracks on the west wall which have been painted over and have not reopened. The next room to the east is a bedroom. This is the easterly room on the south side of the one-story portion of the house. There is minor cracking in the plaster. I observed a vertical crack in the southeast corner and cracking the height of the wall. In the east wall about 4 feet north of the southeast corner there are assorted plaster cracks. There is a vertical crack over the closet at the northwest corner of the room. These cracks appear fairly fresh. This room appears to have been painted relatively recently and all of the cracks in this room are through this most recent painting. There is a narrow window in the center of the south wall. There is a continuous crack from the overlying beam down to the top west corner of the window that has a tear in it. The overall displacement is about 1 /16" to 1 /8". There is cracking with a diagonal component coming off the bottom east of that same window, and a more extensive separation of the plaster at the west end of the window sill. The southeasterly room of the house is the main entrance that opens onto the front porch. This room is two steps down from the remainder of the house to the west. In this room there is fairly extensive cracking. There is a slight inset in the southwest corner. There are significant vertical cracks in virtually all of the corners. Some of these are fairly wide. The vertical crack in the southeast corner is• up to 1 /4" wide near the ceiling. There is a crack about 3/16" wide of the upper half on the southwest corner. At this location there appears to be outward displacement of the south well, around and above the window, which is 3- window panels wide. The northeast corner of this room is crack-free, but some minor cracking has developed around the door frame. There are indications of an earlier crack or seam vertically in the center of the east wall directly over the door, where there may have been some minor repairs in the past. While it's not actively cracking now, there are some minor separations between the patch and what appears to be the original plaster. The den or family room is at the northeast corner of the house. This room has a fireplace in the northeast and has a stone floor. The staircase to the second story extends up the south side of this room. There is also a door to the front porch at the east end of the south wall. There are steps up to the main living room, which is found immediately west. This is a wide of ening, about 8 feet wide, with a rough hewn lintel beam across the top. There is pronounced cracking at both ends of the lintel. This is a wide opening, about 8 feet wide, with a rough hewn beam across the top. There is a compressional type bulge which has broken the plaster (about a 1 foot long crack) with about 3/8" displacement on the south end of the east side of the lintel. At the north end of the east side of the lintel there is a similar compression type bulge, about 2 feet long with a cumulative displacement of about 1!8". At (: ~propct~~26018~26018.mem