Corker Hill
National Historic Register of Historic Places
Associated Outbuildings
Associated buildings that were an integral part of this domestic farmstead are located behind the main house. In the northwest corner of the yard is a large subterranean stone root cellar with a round vaulted ceiling, probably dating to around the mid-19th century. The stone front and entrance is built into the north side of the hill, its vaulted ceiling is covered with sod. East of the root cellar is a one story stone utility building with six over six sash windows, similar in style to a washhouse, however it reportedly was constructed to house a coal oil furnace c.1905. Nearby is a one-story frame chicken house/shed on stone foundation, with eight light fixed windows, typical of the late 19th and early 20th century. A late 19th or early 20th century frame carriage house/garage, off the northeast corner of the main house, completes the group of buildings.
Historic photographs of the house complex from the late 19th century (see attached copies) indicate there were several associated outbuildings on the east side of the house which are no longer in existence. One, possibly log, appears to have been attached to the east gable end elevation of the house, and one frame shed in the east yard of the house; these were probably removed during the c.1905 renovation of the house. Two buildings located in the photograph northeast of the house appear to be the carriage house and chicken coop still extant. The photograph does not extend northeastward enough to include the location of the barn. The several buildings shown in the photograph to the southwest of the house are no longer extant; the site is located on the southwest side of Phillamon Run outside of the nomination boundary. The wetland/meadow in the foreground of the historic photograph is included in the nomination boundary (within the 26-acre Greene Township parcel) and is essentially unchanged from its historic appearance.
Landscape features shown in the pre-1900 photograph which are no longer extant include a picket fence around the front of the house yard and an arched trellis and gazebo. These appear to be late Victorian style landscape features probably associated with the Battin family ownership (see Resource History, Section 8). A later, c.1910 postcard photograph of the house shows that these features were removed and the stone retaining walls and iron fence and gate, extant today, were added c.1905 with the Mahon ownership.