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How did people occupy themselves? What was housework like and who what? Why did some people build the buildings they built? Historical notes like diary accounts, personal ledger books, correspondence can do much to help us understand these questions, but the volumes that survive pale in comparison to our questions. Yet what if we read a building as ifwe were reading a cherished document from the past, looking for clues and following a line that often carries the history over a broad arc of ownership? A building offers a physical, living record of its builder’s and occupants' lives. This record, when placed in context with the events and the culture of the larger community and region offers the historian nuanced details of the quotidian through the lens of material culture.  \nIn the Spring of 2011, a group of volunteers from the Sidney Historical Association documented the Andrew Mann Inn with hopes of learning more about a building’s past that had mostly been left to legend. Located on the north bank of the Susquehanna River near the site of Old Unadilla or what is today Sidney, this late Georgian-style building was constructed, as local history maintains, between 1793 and 1795 along a stage-coach route that followed the course of the Susquehanna River from Wattle's Ferry (Unadilla) southward toward Jericho (Bainbridge) .  \nMeasured Drawings and Historic American Buildings Survey  \nOur goal was to record the building according to procedures and standards set forth by the Historic American Buildings Survey. Organized in 1933, the Historic American Buildings Survey is a tripartite collaboration between the American Institute of Architects, the National Park Service and the Library of Congress in an effort to standardize regional efforts already underway to document and preserve our nation’s architectural heritage by creating a “complete resume of the builder’s art”(Davidonson and Perschler 2003) .  \nThe practice of capturing the “builder’s art” in the form that the Historic American Buildings Survey standards suggest includes photography, written history and measured drawings. While the first two of  \nthese-photography and written history-are standard fare among historians, measured drawings are a subset of historical documentation often relegated to a small community of architects and historic preservationists. The information gathered from drawings that capture the layout and construction details of the material pieces of our built environment can, however, offer a broad pluralistic approach to understanding landscape history and the people themselves who built our history.  \nThe Andrew Mann Inn  \nThe Andrew Mann Inn stands on the northern side of NYS Route 7 on the northern banks of the Susquehanna River in the western portion of the Town of Unadilla. As approached from the road, the house stands upon a raised bank against the rising slope of Mt. Moses. The building is situated at the top of a large bend in the Susquehanna approximately seven river miles west of Nathaniel Wattle’s original ferry crossing and the present-day Village of Unadilla and less than ¾ miles east of the confluence of the Unadilla and Susquehanna Rivers. Near to the house was a second ferry and later bridge connecting the north and south banks ofthe Susquehanna near the developing community of Sidney Plains (now simply Sidney) .  \nThe geographical location ofthe inn in relation to the period transportation network is key. 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