Outside, the grounds were entirely overgrown with weeds and rubble. Shovels in the dirt yielded tractor parts, unused bricks, and an occasional skull.
In addition to the large barn, several smaller buildings--in equally poor condition--were attached to it and to the house. The largest of these was the 19th-century carriage house which had been appropriated for agricultural needs, converted to a barn, and sided with asbestos shingles. When we found it, it was being held up only by its siding, its timbers having succumbed to the appetites of scores of generations of insects.
