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    Is this a smokehouse and what part is missing?

    The back half of the building is a room, approximately 7’x10’. There are new glass windows in it now because the house remodeler installed new windows in the house and all of the out-buildings. I assume that the previous windows were just wooden shutters that could be opened to get light in when...
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    Is this a smokehouse and what part is missing?

    Thanks for your reply. The firebox and grate (where I figured wood chips would be placed) are vented through a slot in the top of the area with the iron doors. Smoke would pass from there through the slot with the metal racks (side of building), then up through a hole into the clay pipe in the...
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    Is this a smokehouse and what part is missing?

    There are beams in the “smoke room” that look like hooks were hung on nails, but there’s enough floor space that freestanding wire racks could have been used.
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    Is this a smokehouse and what part is missing?

    I just bought an old restored property in North Carolina. The house has been restored and the several outbuildings have been cleaned/painted/wired for electricity. This building looks like an old smoke house. The fire box on the left side has an upper chamber with a heavy metal rack—both...
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