The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 100

.4 A21-R00M J. V. pi SPRING HOUSE I i That is just what it is, because the built (J I PS'? 'bit tt- iiia-nMinStotMf" T'J' 1 ire norn oKmit 10 miloc rnm RoHfnrH TnH THE snrinff intake. about 10 miles from Bedford, THE spring intake. BUILT 80 years ago It pours 45 gallons amrh-ute, and provides all the water for the house.

this house features a spring running in its cellar. house was so a spring runs water right through the basement By JANE MARSHALL i 1IOST Southern Indiana farmhouses built 80 years If or so ago had running water installed long after tf I they were built. Not so with the home of Mrs. Cornelia Jones at Williams, in Lawrence County, 10 miles from Bedford. The running water in the Jones house was there before the house.

In 1869 when Bartemus Williams, one of the family that founded the little country town, was looking around for a place to build a home for himself, his wife, and small son, he was taken with the possibilities of a small swift stream he saw gushing out of the side of the hill on the western edge of the village. He decided to build his house around the flowing spring. It took three years to finish the job, and when Williams was through he had a red-brick structure of 21 rooms. And the house had running water. Today the cold' spring water still rushes clear and swift through a series of stone troughs in the basement just as it did 80 years ago.

To the visitor descending the long steep steps to the high-ceiling room, the rushing water sound like a small river, not a little spring. The rooms through which the water flows are always cool never above 55 degrees and the rooms are damp. Little stalactites are forming under the three limestone troughs. Stalagmites nearly an inch high are growing up from the brick floor, too. Mrs.

Jones, the present owner, is the daughter of Bartemus Williams. Like her mother she still cools Bartemus Williams built his great house with care, for he meant it to last hundreds of years. The 500,000 bricks in it were made of the red clay found on the farm. Each of the walls, even those inside, was made three bricks thick. The yellow poplar of the interior woodwork was sawed on the place and finished by hand by carpenters.

All of the downstairs floors, except that in the parlor, are of ash. The parlor ffoor is of alternate planks of ash and walnut. The floors upstairs are of pine. The ceilings of the first and second stories were built high in the custom of the age. They measure about 12 feet from the floor.

And of course there are plenty of fireplaces. A wide staircase, with carved post and rail, ascends from the main front entrance hall. The entrance itself, which faces west, is paneled and recessed. Building such a large house was expensive even 80 years ago. Williams had to have the limestone for the copings, sills, and lintels hauled from Bedford, 10 miles to the east.

The sandstone for the foundation came from the vicinity of Mount Olive in Martin County, 5 miles in the other direction. Williams died in 1882. Mrs. Jones, however, has lived in the house nearly all her life. fresh vegetables and jars of preserves in the little stream in the cellar, but she has a modern electric refrigerator in her kitchen.

That's to save steps. Just off the room with the trough is another, one step lower, where fresh meat is hung. The water from the spring flows into the basement at the rate of 45 gallons a minute. It comes into the house through an opening in the northeast corner of the trough room. The troughs, in three graduated sections, hug two sides of the room.

The water is clarified even more as it gushes through these troughs, leaving a deposit of silt in the bottom of each. From the sluices the spring water passes under the meat-cooling room and then out into a large concrete tank in the barnyard. The spring provides all the water needed in the house and barnyard. A pipe carries part of it upstairs for use in the modern bathroom, the kitchen and the water heater. Almost as interesting as the spring in the basement is the tall narrow tower that hovers over the highway at the south end of the house.

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