Bykenhulle

New York

To get into the old chicken coop, you tip a carved wooden liquor bottle into a shot glass and a peephole opens.

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Behind a Greek Revival farmhouse near Hopewell Junction stands a long two-story building that once held chickens. A wealthy New Yorker named Webster Wagner is believed to have turned it into a hunting lodge. He was a descendant of a co-inventor of the Pullman car, and he treated the old farm as a country house, leaving the farming to tenants. He is thought to have built a screened pheasant coop onto the barn so there would be birds to shoot. The roosts came out of the poultry house. A cobblestone chimney and fireplace went in on the west side. And the entrance got a trick. You tip a carved wooden liquor bottle into a nearby shot glass, and a peephole is revealed. The house itself is called Bykenhulle, and its shutters are wooden and louvered, its ceilings in the central hall eleven feet high.

This is the first of 2 parts. The rest runs about 2 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.

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The building is entered by tipping a carved wooden liquor bottle into a nearby shot glass to reveal a peephole.

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