EXPLANATION OF OUTLINE OF LIVING SPACE AFTER HOUSE FIRE

              EXPLANATION OF OUTLINE OF LIVING SPACE

                         AFTER HOUSE FIRE

     TABLE - Home-made wooden table that had been on the back porch of the original house, doors led from this porch to the kitchen, to the pump house and to the driveway.

     C - Kitchen chair that belonged to kitchen table and chairs given to Charlie's mother at the time of her marriage.  These chairs and table were rescued from the fire.  (The table and other chairs were stored in the woodshed.)

     HC - Twins high chairs rescued from the fire.

     LS - Two lid laundry stove acquired after the fire.  Small circle is the stove pipe that carried the smoke from the stove up through the roof of the shack.

     WASH DISH - Used to wash our hands and face, or take a sponge bath.

     WATER - Clean water carried in from the well.  It had a dipper in it. This water was used to drink, cook, wash hands, or take a sponge bath.

     S - Soap dish for hands, face or sponge bath.

     OBLONG under wash dish, water and soap is the dresser brought from Almond and saved from the fire.  One drawer of dresser held dish towels, bath towels etc.  Another drawer held the diapers and baby clothes.

     SHELVES - Shelves Charlie built in corner; held food, (potatoes, canned or boxed groceries, bread,) dishes, pots and pans, farm records and accounts, writing material, mail, money and billfold or purse.  (We could buy bread, rolls, doughnuts, cookies etc. from bread wagon which stopped at house three days a week.)

     BED - for Charlie and me

     CRIBS - One for Vergie, one for Bobby.

     CLOTHES - High shelf for caps, scarves, etc.  Bar under high shelf for hanging clothes on hangers.  Shoes, boots, etc. under hanging clothe.

     DOUBLE LINES AROUND OUTSIDE WALLS - Windows (no curtains or shades.


///

             PLAN OF SHIKOSKI FARM HOUSE BEFORE FIRE

     W   Well, Pump and rod, all in a straight line, from drilled well and up through the pump to the center of the windmill wheel.

     C   Chimney in kitchen for the kitchen range stove

     S   Sink in wash room with drain to the cesspool.  Wash room had outside door & steps leading to the clothes line and garden.

    

         Pantry had shelves, drawers, and a window to outside.

     Z   Zinc-topped work counter for kneading dough, rolling out pie crusts, washing dishes, etc.  It had a large space underneath to store large kettles, etc.

     DOWN   Stairs to basement where storage for apples, potatoes, and other vegetables.  Also lead to furnace compartment.

     STOOP   Entrance to house for guests arriving in driveway, coats could be hung near bottom of stairs.

     Living room was separated from dining room with a large archway between the rooms -- no direct doorway between kitchen and dining room.

     Bedroom #1.  Main bedroom where Charlie and I slept.

     Bedroom #2.  Bedroom for twins crib.  Also contained closet for our clothes.  My wedding dress, Charlie's new suit and other clothes lost when house burned.

     Bedroom #3.  Brother John's bedroom.

               SECOND STORY OF FARM HOUSE

     Circle .  Smoke pipe from basement furnace, through our bedroom, up to second floor chimney.

     c   Chimney in second floor for furnace pipe.

     Bedroom #4.  Uncle John's bedroom.

     ATTIC   Storage under roof over living room, not finished.  This is where the cribs and high chairs were stored before fire.

          WOODSHED WITH OUT-DOOR TOILET ATTACHED DIAGRAM

     Original walkway between farm house and toilet through the wood shed, dotted line separated wooden walkway from bare ground where stove wood was thrown.  After the fire Charlie covered this ground with a linoleum-covered floor, and this room with wallboard, which then became the second room of the shack in which we lived.