Springfield Tour

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Thanks for checking on this because it is so unusual (I think). At Surratt House, there has been an ongoing question as to whether or not there would have been gutters on a middle-class home in the 1850s. For the first few years, we had no gutters. When the kitchen wing was added, we did add gutters to it. The main block of the house has French drainage around the foundation. I certainly have very little experience in gutters (no comment here, please), but this is unusual to say the least.