Nellis Tavern - Inside and Out

David E. Nellis has recently taken some photos of the 1747 Nellis Tavern. They tell the story of the rehabilitation of this historic building. Additional information about the tavern may be found on the Palatine Settlement Society, Inc. website at http://www.palatinesettlementsociety.org/. Work began on the building in 1983. The Nellis tavern is located on New York Route 5, just east of St. Johnsville.

	The main entrance to the Nellis Tavern faced the Mohawk River. This entrance has recently been added.
	If you follow all of the rules, you would not want to be an organ grinder.
	How would you like to be a traveler and have your dinner in front of this fireplace?
	This cupboard was next to the fireplace.
	This cupboard was on the other side of the fireplace. It looks like the place where liquid refreshments were stored. A section of the wattle and daub construction is also visable.
	This is a fire place that was located in another part of the building.
	This section of the building is waiting for someone who understands how to apply a daub or plaster to these walls.
	Here is a song about the Nellis family.
	This looks like a storage area.
	The living room with another fireplace.
	A period quilt.
	2nd Floor Room Dances and other forms of entertainment were held here. Notice the lath on the not yet plastered walls. It was made by rotating a log and shaving an approximately 3/8 thick flat section of wood from the turned log in the same manner as one would sharpen a pencil with a hand held pencil sharpener.
	Another 2nd Floor Room The resulting shaved wood was flattened and split every inch or so by an ax or adz to form lath.  The laths followed the natural wood grain and were not fully separated from the piece but held together by strands of wood. These rooms will be plastered and stencilled some time in the future.

Contact Person: Richard Hayes

This page was last revised on 9 August 2004