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(12-14-2015 09:03 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Very good - it's Mary's stove in Springfield. Actually I feel not competent to decide if this is a wood stove (a kitchen stove certainly) but assume y'all are thinking of the correct item and place.


Score update:
Laurie 7
Gene 4
Joe 4
Roger 3
Rogerm 2
Thomas 1

This one went fast. You will need the little rest as I believe tomorrow's will be another hard one (but you may prove me wrong).

Thanks for giving all three of us the credit for correct answers. I'm sure that the Lincolns' kitchen stove was wood burning. I have read that it was the man's duty to keep the stoves stoked, but that Mary had to do it because her husband was away so much of the time. There's an article online that I will never find again about what a good housekeeper and mother Mary Todd Lincoln turned out to be after a childhood of being pampered.

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If you haven't found it yet, this site is a great one for up-close photos of the various rooms in the Springfield home. Hope the wild mixture of wallpaper and ingrain carpeting hues and patterns doesn't give you a headache!

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/interior_l...linois.htm