Posted 11 years ago
fyfer1
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This parlor stove belonged to my grandmother. Picture was taken late 1956 in Stratford, NH where she lived. It was a wood-burning parlor stove with detached chrome 'wings' on the sides. The barrel was large enough to take three logs of wood. It had a fennial (please pardon spelling) on top that swung away. It was large enough to heat a three room very small house.We used to dry mittons on it. I don't remember what the decoration on top of it was. It had a 'hearth' lay the wood on just outside the bottom door. It had four claw-foot legs, and, it sat directly on the protective flooring. It wasn't really round except at the sides and back. It stood about 4 to 4 1/2 feet tall. It looks like a "Florence" or a "Round Oak", but the front has a name ending with what appear to be the letters "MAC": the letters seem to be on the right and get smaller as they go around the front of the grill door. Even in 1956 it was old.
Around this area, people may have bought items like this through Mongomery Ward, but it may have come from a place like Colebrook, Groveton, Berlin, Lancaster, NH or St. Johnsbury, Vt.
I have learned much more about this stove since the original post. It is a late-model Round Oak, and has "Dowagiac" across the top front door of this double-burner stove, as it was made in Dowagiac, MI by the Round Oak company. It was manufactured between the late 1890's to 1920's. It was probably model 18-T-3, not as fancy as the 18-T-31. I'm looking to buy one like it. If anyone sees this model, PLEASE let me know.
By the way, the children in this 1956 photo was taken in Stratford, NH, just 1 mile north of Stratford Hollow on Rte 3 at the home of my grandmother Alice Evelena "Lena" Boudle Fluery Barrows. The children are my sisters and myself, from left to right, Ginger Lee, Starr Ann, and myself, Lana Jean. This house was a dismantled-reassembled service station from Brunswick, Vt. The work was done by my father Donald Boudle Fluery and his brother Bernard Everett Fluery in 1950. To us and all the 52+ grandchildren, it was a palace.
Very random, but I have been researching the 733rd Field Artillery Battalion and I believe you might be connected. Please reply here if you get this, or email me paul at sikse dot com
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