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The Nephi Moss house was originally built on a hilltop southwest of town. The Moss house is a solid, impressive structure one-and-a-half stories tall, it is constructed of heavy wood slabs, roughly four inches by ten inches, set next to each other vertically with the crack between them sealed on the exterior by a smaller vertical wood batten strip. The house is built on a stone foundation, with a hewn log still running horizontally around the building on top of the stones and below the slabs. The corners are reinforced with diagonally braces on the exterior which extended more than halfway up the walls.
The batten strips are cut to fit above and below these braces, showing that the diagonal pieces were part of the original structure. This house is a remarkable example of a rare type of construction. Heavy plank houses were built in colonial Rhode Island and Massachusetts tow centuries earlier, and vertical log stockades were sometimes built in the West in pioneer times, bus houses of this type were never common in the Great Basin. Its plan and proportions, however, are less unusual. The plan is the “hall and parlor” type with a central chimney and an attic story. The front façade is the familiar symmetrical pattern with a central door flanked by a window on each side. Unlike most buildings in Chesterfield, the building is held together with old-fashioned square nails, indicating that it may be one of the earlier houses built in the area.
The batten strips are cut to fit above and below these braces, showing that the diagonal pieces were part of the original structure. This house is a remarkable example of a rare type of construction. Heavy plank houses were built in colonial Rhode Island and Massachusetts tow centuries earlier, and vertical log stockades were sometimes built in the West in pioneer times, bus houses of this type were never common in the Great Basin. Its plan and proportions, however, are less unusual. The plan is the “hall and parlor” type with a central chimney and an attic story. The front façade is the familiar symmetrical pattern with a central door flanked by a window on each side. Unlike most buildings in Chesterfield, the building is held together with old-fashioned square nails, indicating that it may be one of the earlier houses built in the area.