This was my original take on the footprint and floor plan of the house.
The kitchen/back porch wing is perpendicular to the main part of the house, and it has a lower roof line and pitch.
As you’re standing on the back porch at the doorway, the stairway is straight ahead, the kitchen is to the left, and the front parlor is to the right. The stairway makes a 90 degree turn at the landing. At the top of the stairs Mattie’s room was to the left, overlooking the back porch, and the boys’ room was to the right, facing the back. (As Little Jess gets to the top of the stairs, there is a ladder going to the attic, barely visible at screen right, next to the door to Mattie’s room.)
The attic was above the parlor. There may have been some back stairs to the attic, which would have allowed Gard and Mattie to scoot upstairs without being seen by the visiting elders. Maybe not. Maybe they just scooted upstairs from the porch when the elders weren’t looking. The front door, which the elders used, was in the parlor, facing the road. It was also the door through which they unloaded the organ from the wagon.
Jess and Eliza’s bedroom was behind the parlor, screen right as you’re looking at the stairs and kitchen.
Here are the new discrepancies in my mind:
I think it’s a continuity issue: the initial door at which Little Jess is standing, opens the wrong way for the boys’ room.
I originally assumed that Little Jess was standing at the boys’ bedroom door when he thought he heard someone (Mattie) talking, then he turned around and went in Mattie’s room across the hall. It’s possible that Mattie’s room spills over into a portion of the main wing (because there is a non-dormer window at the end). The boys’ room has a masonry wall, which would be the end of the house facing the barn, and the lower roof pitch; Mattie’s room is wood-paneled.
And the dormer Mattie leans out of as Gard is saying good-bye is too close to the roof line of the main house.
Hell, I don’t know.
OCD is a nuisance, isn't it?
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