johnson house

[jim currie]

Nice work, Jim!
It's very likely that the whole house, at one time, was board and batten, then later sheathed-over with shiplap/clapboard, or novelty siding.  That was sometimes done right over the battens, while other examples had the battens removed before the re-siding.

Wayne

could be the house was originally built in 1852  the drawings list shiplap on front rear and left side on the right its novelty, the photo dates between 1933 and 1940 .