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[E Yoder]

In an attic we were in a while back...

Now that took some skill!

[slimjim]

Aaaand what is that a chimney?

[E Yoder]

Yup, i guess they built it to ft between the ceiling joists and the rafters. Built in the Civil War days I think.

[slimjim]

Hmmmm, kind of like putting a square peg in a slightly smaller round hole huh!

[BIG AL]

That's quite the chimney , never seen spiral corbeling before.

[FrozenMongrel]

A lot of chimney's of that era are built so that they will collapse if the house burns down because insurance rules of the time dictated that the house was not a total loss unless the chimney fell. I've seen a bunch of them that angle heavily in the attic, but from the living floors of the house and outside the roof you'd never be able to tell. The twist design is also fairly common, although not as much as the angled ones from my experience.

[slimjim]

THAT is great information and history, Thanks for sharing!