“I thought it would be the perfect centerpiece for our kitchen,” says Bruce.ĭavid Erickson of Erickson’s Antique Stoves used the stove’s central firebox to disguise the wiring and controls for the new electric cooktop. As soon as Bruce and Melanie saw it, they were sold. “It was a really deluxe model for its day,” Erickson notes. He sold them a decorative potbelly stove from the late 1800s (which now sits on a hearth in the revamped kitchen of their 1901 transitional Victorian), and also mentioned another appliance he was restoring: a center-firebox, double-oven Defiance wood-burning stove from the J.L. The salvage-loving couple was on one of their regular pilgrimages to the Brimfield Antique Show in central Massachusetts when they met David Erickson of Erickson’s Antique Stoves. (Photo: Franklin & Esther Schmidt) Victorianįor Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum, it all started with the stove. Cast-iron barstools salvaged from a local restaurant belly up to the printer’s desk-turned-island in Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum’s Victorian kitchen.
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