Houses in America were originally heated by open fires in a fireplace. By the mid-1700s, cast-iron heating stoves were introduced. Many were “five plate” stoves made of five iron plates assembled as ...

A century ago, home life in Vermont revolved around the wood burning cook stove. Meals were prepared, bread baked and hands warmed from the heat it produced. Stoves with names like Gold Coin, ...

Pamela Higgins with her vintage Chambers stove, which dates back to the early 1950s, in the kitchen at her home in Yarmouth. Higgins has had the enamel-over-cast-iron stove for more than 40 years, and ...

We recently bought a house and there was a cast iron stove in the back yard on the deck. While the thing looks nice we have no use for it. We would like to get rid of it and, hopefully, at a fair ...

ATTLEBORO -- This Saturday, the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum will open an exhibit of antique wood- and coal-burning stoves called “Embers of Innovation.” The cast iron stoves have all been ...