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. 4- -E • • Memo to Susan McCannon Third Inspection of Tatum Residence page 2 apparently a guest at the house on several occasions. I examined two photos of the house within the text, the first on page 102 and the second on page 122. Photo on page 102 This photo was taken from the southeast towards the house from a distance of several hundred feet. The two story tall south and east walls are most prominent in the photo. The photo distinctly shows a metal trough gutter running the entire length of the south-facing two story wall near the roofline, just below the three authentic integral scuppers. This metal gutter is approximately six inches wide and drains by a small pipe back onto the first floor roof above the dining room. The scuppers, still in place today, are approximately 18 inches long. Carl Gerity on two occasions during tours has indicated that the Tatums suspect that the eastern most scupper leaks into the adobe wall, which leakage is responsible for much of the obvious water-caused deterioration of the second floor southern wall. The .retrofitted metal gutter suggests to me that.one or more of the scuppers may have begun leaking during the early years of the structure's life. The gutter was probably installed as a remedial effort to prevent constant wettirig of the lower wall surfaces from eventually saturating the wall. It would be interesting to determine when this non-original gutter was removed and whether the leakage problem had been abated. In addition, careful examination of this photograph determined that the breezeway and roof between the house and the garage were absent. Further, careful examination of the kitchen end of the south wall discerns that the south wall originally ended at the location of the dining room chimney, locatable by a one-foot cubic adobe chimney which protrudes above the roof line. None of the modern kitchen, underlain by the excavated concrete basement, appears to have existed in the thirties. Apparently, the adobe wall between the dining room and the kitchen was the original western end of the structure. The basement beneath the kitchen was excavated sometime following the construction of the original house. Photo on page 122 This photograph was taken from approximately 500 feet to the south east of the structure. The photo is centered upon a hay wagon in the foreground, but the house appears prominently in the background of the scene.