There were two big rooms with a fireplace in each room. One room Mom and Dad slept. There were two full-size beds and a small bed called the wooden bed, which I slept in on the other side of the room beside the fireplace. The other room had two beds, a dresser and a large shelf that they stacked their quilts in. There was a long hallway at the side of the house. The hall was open at the end leading to the kitchen and dining room with a wood burning stove, a table where the water bucket set and a shelf built on the wall to put dishes in. There was a cabinet with four doors where they kept butter and cold breads. There was a long table with a long bench and chairs. Nails were on the wall behind the stove to hang skillets, pots and pans on. The stove had six caps where six pots could be cooked at one time. Just off the dining room was a small bedroom I used when I got older.
          Across the road and down the hill was the wash house. There was a big black kettle handing on the side of the wash house, which was used to heat water in. There were two large tubs with wash boards and batting stick and a batting block, where the clothes were laid on then the batting stick was used to beat the clothes.
          Over top of the wash house there was a coalhouse and a smokehouse. They would store their meat in the smokehouse when they killed their hogs. They dug their own coal from the hill. They took a large olker, drilled a large hole in the ground then put a keg of powder in the hole with a long fuse leading a distance away from the hole. They would then light the fuse. The powder would blow open the dirt and blow the coal out.
          There was a door at the back of the kitchen that opened to a path that led to another smokehouse with a cellar dug back in the hill with shelves where they stored the vegetables and fruits that they would can.
          There was a lane leading from the house to the barn. In the barn, they kept two mules. In the barn loft, fodder was stored along with apples stored in barrels of sawdust. At the end of the lane, across the creek and up the hill a short distance was the cow barn where they kept the cows. This is also where mom did her milking.
          Near the cow barn and up the hill a short distance was the garden where mom planted anything she could get her hands on. At the side of the garden, a large hole was dug. In this hole, they would store their Irish potatoes. They would put straw or grass over the potatoes and would then cover the straw or grass with dirt. Outside the kitchen to the right was the well house. A house was built around the well where they stored molasses in 50-pound lard cans.
          At the back of the house was a lane that led to the pasture where the cows and horses fed on grass. Inside the pasture there was a hog pen with a roof on it. They would keep the hogs in the pen during the winter, and during the summer they were kept in a large hog lot. A short distance from the hog pen was the chicken house. I would gather the eggs every night. At the bottom of the hill that the chicken house was on was the outhouse. There was a front porch all the way across the house with a swing hanging from the ceiling off the porch with a few cane bottom chairs setting on the porch.

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