{"id":21138,"date":"2025-04-03T23:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/?page_id=21138"},"modified":"2025-04-03T23:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:34:56","slug":"old-six-mile-touring-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/old-six-mile-touring-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Six Mile Touring the Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-medium-brown-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-c27693b9ab0ec4352e965d51f7fb3e47\" style=\"font-size:25px\"><strong>Touring the Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-weight: normal\"><strong>Front Hall<br><\/strong>The front hall features a beautiful stairway constructed of native pine. \u00a0The lights were originally located in the old Schildman Mortuary.<br><br><strong>Living Room<br><\/strong>The spool couch is from the Rode home, the spool end tables are from the Coolrdige home. \u00a0The square grand piano was built in 1854. \u00a0The red platform rocker was brought from England by the Larner Family in 1907. \u00a0The light fixture is from the Baker home in Madison, Illinois. \u00a0Other chairs and tables are from various Granite City families.<br><br><strong>Kitchen<br><\/strong>Note the two ovens in the coal\/wood burning stove. \u00a0The pie safe dates back to 1837 and the buffet with dry sink displays circa 1890 kitchen utensils.<br><br><strong>Summer Kitchen<br><\/strong>Used for baking in the summer and as a washhouse in the winter, the Summer Kitchen displays laundry, apple butter, sauerkraut and butchering equipment. \u00a0Note the old time foot warmer.<br><br><strong>Display Room<br><\/strong>The Display Rooms contains Civil War artifacts, an Indian Collection, original graniteware and sever local exhibits.<br><br><strong>Bedroom<br><\/strong>The bed, dresser, chest and quilt are all over one hundred years old. \u00a0Note that the bedroom is equipped with all necessities&#8230;a wash bowl and pitcher and a &#8220;china pot&#8221; under the bed.<br><br><strong>Sewing Room<br><\/strong>The sewing machine, spinning wheel, quilt frame and body form, all used for clothes making are all over one hundred years old.<br><br><strong>Smokehouse<br><\/strong>Built after the Civil War, this room was used to smoke and store meats throughout the year.<br><br><strong>Traveler&#8217;s Room<br><\/strong>This guest room, built over the kitchen has been fully restored.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touring the Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21141,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21138\/revisions\/21141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}