Look! No wall between the stair and the fireplace. The black wall is the kitchen side of the wall to the kitchen. It will come down tomorrow. The wall they took out today was drywall and the area underneath it is finished wood floor. There's only a little area that will need repair. That wall was added at some point. The kitchen wall is original, it's an earlier kind of wallboard, almost looks like bulletin board.
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Kind of amazing that the wall next to the stairs was added. One wonders, at what point? I mean, was the big living room on the other side of the other wall in that room there already, or was this before that addition? It creates such a dingy, tiny hallway back to the kitchen, which I can't imagine anyone wanting to add that. If they had closed off the room, then maybe -- in order to close off the room. But why just divide it up like that?
Does the post near the base of the stairs have to stay?
Yes, unfortunately, it's holding up the upstairs and the roof.
Still, I suppose, with facing and all, it can make a nice pedestal/column. It explains, a bit, why someone would build a wall there, too.
It was the outer wall of the house at one time. Not the part that went along the stairs, but the part perpendicular to it. YOu may be able to see the difference in the flooring along that line.
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