In the kitchen, which is a later add-on (1880s?), there is a dutch oven about five feet high. Current owners heated part of the house with a wood burning fireplace insert placed there until the heating system was completed. It is now where the stove sits. The chimney up from there is restored and functional. Basically you'd want to put a stove hood in and vent it up the chimney.

Mrs. Wickes lived in the house into the '30s. At some point it was a boarding house. A wing was added to the south side with several rooms. Some time later this wing was destroyed, by fire or wind, nobody seems sure. A cement foundation remains there, outside the dining room windows --- nice place for a rose garden.

From the '40s on the house was owned by a family, and later by their son, into the late 1980s. The building fell into general disrepair during that period and was eventually abandoned and sold to the current owners in 1989.

Sometimes the building was divided into 3 flats. There are the remains of an old kitchen on the third floor --- looks '40s or '50s in style. Or perhaps this reflects 3rd-floor Victorian servants' quarters. In one old photo there is a fellow driving a horse and wagon in a corn field next to the house, and a maid with a baby in a second-storey window.

At another period the building was divided into 3 flats. Current owners opened everything back up into single residence.