Music Room

This room beautifully shows off the butternut woodwork, which is found throughout the house. When the house was built, this was originally the kitchen, thus the many built-in cabinets. The Florida family added what are now the dining room and the kitchen in the late 1800s.

Both the Florida and Stork families were very musical and both used this as a music room. The focal point of this room is, of course, the parlor grand piano, dated 1884. The Storks brought it here.

As you glance around the room, you will notice storks painted on many of the glassware pieces. Mrs. Stork was a great collector of glassware, especially if a stork was depicted on it.

The big oil paintings on the walls are Mrs. Stork’s great-great grandparents and were painted in Bristol, England in 1836. The photos on the small table in front of the mirror are of Mr. Stork and his two daughters, Mary Lou and Grace.

When you come to visit the house, look for the boxed-in hole in the ceiling above the stove. The Ames family did this modification when a clock, ordered from Boston, arrived and was too tall for the mantel.

Next Room ~>