Creation Date

1860 – 1870

Description

Coal-burning stove, cast iron, 53" high and 25 1/2" in diameter at its widest, stove sits on an aluminum stove square (33'"x 33"), around its center the stove has twelve arched isinglass insets, one of these insets is a small hinged door, at the bottom of the stove is a pair of slightly larger cast-iron double doors, the stove rests on four short legs and around its 12-sided base is written "Oriental No. 12 1865" and "Perry & Co. Albany, N.Y.", the stove is the same as the one in the bank in 1876.
Northfield News, Thursday, May 11, 1978: "An antique stove, exactly like the one that was in the First National Bank of Northfield at the time it was raided by the James-Younger gang in 1876, was located several months ago by the restoration architect retained by the Northfield Historical society and was given to the society by Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Ellestad. The stove recently arrived from the Eastern seaboard and has been set up in the bank museum where Ellestad is pictured examining it. The handsome iron stove with isinglass insets, was made in the late 1860s in upstate New York, one of comparatively few produced. The society board considers it a near miracle that one could be found at this time."