New England Farmhouse: HO by Creative Laser Design

[jbvb]

Thanks Jan, Curt, Jeff.  I've been told the big problem Harvestore owners had was the top-unloading machinery would corrode faster than they'd been told to expect.  Producing breakdown and repeated, expensive repairs.

[KentuckySouthern]

Nice farm steads all.  Lots like them all over here in rural Michigan...I know that some quite old homes had the kitchen w/stove in a separate structure so the kitchen could have a fire and not burn down the main house.

Karl

[deemery]

Nice farm steads all.  Lots like them all over here in rural Michigan...I know that some quite old homes had the kitchen w/stove in a separate structure so the kitchen could have a fire and not burn down the main house.

Karl

I thought it was so the heat from the kitchen wouldn't heat up the rest of the house in the summer.  But either reason would work :-) 

dave

[chris.mincemoyer]

Nice farm steads all.  Lots like them all over here in rural Michigan...I know that some quite old homes had the kitchen w/stove in a separate structure so the kitchen could have a fire and not burn down the main house.

Karl

I thought it was so the heat from the kitchen wouldn't heat up the rest of the house in the summer.  But either reason would work :-)

dave

Yep, us Pennsylvania German's call them summer kitchens.

[Mr. Critter]

Summer kitchen's the term I grew up with in Québec, too.  My grandfather's house in Trois-Rivières had one.  Along with a sand-floored cellar.

[KentuckySouthern]

In the South there is the Dog Trop style house with a breezeway as described https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtrot_house