Estate Oak No. 336 Parlor Stove

The Estate Stove Company was organized in 1842 by J. Scott Peebles as Wood and Company, where the company made skillets, ovens, lids, and cooking stoves. In 1847, their foundry (a factory that produces metal castings) suffered loss by flood and was later rebuilt on higher ground. Later, the firm later became Martin, Henderson, and Company (Thomas Martin and Thomas Henderson were employees of the company since its organization). Through the 1860s and 1870s, the company changed owners many times. In 1882, 82 men were employed in the company, with assets listed as $137,000 and liabilities of $16,500. The factory was brought to Hamilton, Ohio in 1885 under the then current owner of Lazard.

In 1892 a patent was issued for jointless ash box construction for Estate Oak Stoves. In 1905, the Estate Stove Company was incorporated. In 1937, now Estate Gas Ranges and Estate Electric Ranges were created. In 1942, the company celebrated its centennial and three years later it was purchased by Noma Electric in 1945, then by Radio Corporation of America in 1952, and finally by Whirlpool-Seeger in 1955. The Hamilton plant was closed in 1962. This very ordinary fence sitting in the corner would have been used to warn the school during Colorado’s cold winter and fall days. To operate this stove you must add fuel to the firebox, if notice there are a lot of trees outside, these trees would not be there during the 1910s; so what would they use to light the fire? The answer is cow dung! As well as operating the dampers were adjusted to control airflow and thus the intensity of the fire