PineRidge
Super Member
I grew up in the HVAC industry and years ago my dad had one of his heating companies located in Toledo, Ohio. He installed a new furnace for a guy that had this old Favorite Parlor Stove actually heating his home. Told my dad he could have it if he took it away. Brother and I inherited it when we purchased the business from dad some years back before his death.
The stove is heavy, probably 500 pounds or so of cast iron and nickel plated steel. The only way we have ever been able to move it is to dis-assemble it and then re-assemble on the new location. It sat in our office window for some 45 years before it was moved to my pole barn for storage where it now resides. Kids used to come in with their parents to talk about new equipment and poke their fingers through the mica windows for fun.
Years ago one of the local McDonald's owners came to us and offered to place the stove in a McDonald's restaurant that they were getting ready to build. He wanted us to donate the stove. We told him when McDonald's starts giving away free food he could have it for free.
My plans one day are to restore it if I can locate a good source for the isinglass mica windows. It should make a great focal point for our country home.
The stove is heavy, probably 500 pounds or so of cast iron and nickel plated steel. The only way we have ever been able to move it is to dis-assemble it and then re-assemble on the new location. It sat in our office window for some 45 years before it was moved to my pole barn for storage where it now resides. Kids used to come in with their parents to talk about new equipment and poke their fingers through the mica windows for fun.
Years ago one of the local McDonald's owners came to us and offered to place the stove in a McDonald's restaurant that they were getting ready to build. He wanted us to donate the stove. We told him when McDonald's starts giving away free food he could have it for free.
My plans one day are to restore it if I can locate a good source for the isinglass mica windows. It should make a great focal point for our country home.