Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1850
During the research for the structural improvements to its barn, the Dorchester Historical Society discovered that the ell of the barn had a basement door that had been hidden on the outside. There is a passageway between the barn and the carriage house where the land slopes down from the front of the ell toward the back. The door was invisible from the outside due to the accumulation of dirt and trash, especially the deposit of dirt from the driveway when the snow was plowed in the winter. It looked as if the trash in front of the door might be as old as 50 years, and the fact that no one remembers the doorway ever being visible supports this guess. This summer the doorway has been cleared.
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