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Richard G.

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My son is restoring the inside of a 150+ year old church. The last services were held there in the 1930's. My Great grand parents are buried there.
The oldest grave we have found is 1862.
The stove is a Buck Stove and Range Co, Buck's Gem No 36. Made in St. Louis, MO.
I can't find much out about the company on the computer.
Anyone ever seen one like this?
One leg was missing and a local foundry cast one for us at no charge. New one on the right.
Richard in NW SC
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The link below provides a little info and on Bing there are a few articles citing the 1909 suite between the company and the American Federation of Labor.

http://biggert.cul.columbia.edu/items/view/ave_biggert_00704
 
I like the position its sitting in with those old roads & at an intersection .Right there is good sermon material (such as "Is your life at a busy intersection"). So , what are your plans for this nice historical church ? I really like digging into the history of old buildings . I wish I knew back in the 50s & 60s what I know now . I would've gotten pictures of some of the old buildings that no longer stand in this small city . I own my Grammas home & when I got married , there was an old abandoned hotel across the street with pillars out front with a porch above the pillars where tenants could sit out on chairs .I used to park my 1956 Ford between two of those pillars for the fun of it .Pictures are in my head , but I wish they were on paper so I could share . I'm happy to see how you guys wanta preserve some history like that . God bless , Ken
 
Kind of like the church that I grew up in, except the windows in ours were arched to a point at the top. I still like old wooden churches.
 
Those cast iron stoves will pump out a lot of heat, much more than a steel one. I have a cast iron Norwegian Jotul stove and love it!
 
Thanks guys. I appreciate the info.
As far as the foundry, They are a little family run outfit since the sixties. Never seen a name or phone number. They are so busy, it took nearly 3 months to work in this job.
I recommend Cattails? foundry in Amish country if you need something done. I have always heard great things about them.
Richard
 
The thing I find really sad is that so many churches stand empty. Kind of like our national soul, empty. Churches were the centerpiece of rural life up till the 50's or 60's. You didn't have to be a hard core fire and brimstone type, you went because everyone did and it was where you saw your friends and neighbors and where the heart of the community beat. It also reminded you there's was more to life than just existing for the moment. I can recall 4 or 5 of the churches in my area getting together when someone lost a homes to fire and coming together to help. We lost that, we lost our grounding in faith and our nation is dying because we're more concerned with materialism, porn, sports, shiny crap from China and "where's mines?!!!".

The best thing that could happen to that church, and our country, is for it to be filled with families and kids and to regain it's original purpose.
 
(quoted from post at 05:06:52 11/25/13) The thing I find really sad is that so many churches stand empty. Kind of like our national soul, empty. Churches were the centerpiece of rural life up till the 50's or 60's. You didn't have to be a hard core fire and brimstone type, you went because everyone did and it was where you saw your friends and neighbors and where the heart of the community beat. It also reminded you there's was more to life than just existing for the moment. I can recall 4 or 5 of the churches in my area getting together when someone lost a homes to fire and coming together to help. We lost that, we lost our grounding in faith and our nation is dying because we're more concerned with materialism, porn, sports, shiny crap from China and "where's mines?!!!".

The best thing that could happen to that church, and our country, is for it to be filled with families and kids and to regain it's original purpose.
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TV happened to church. It started taking up a lot of people's time and showed the rest of the country how southern California lived and that families needed two incomes in order to keep up with the Joneses. People got the idea that they could worship God's creation instead of God himself, and in direct contradiction to the Bible, that they could do all of the worshipping that they needed to do with out setting foot in a church.
 
No doubt you're right. I've often said the best thing that could happen to this country is for TV and public mega schools both to end. Both teach materialism, cruelty, arrogance, shallowness, greed and probably more. Only a small part of either qualifies as "good".
 
She sure is a beauty. My brother has one out in his shop without the fancy scroll. He sure likes it. Doesn't put out the heat that our grandfahers big ol' pot belly put out, but aint nearly as big, bt does good enough though.

She sure is a beauty just the same though.

Mark
 
Nice church. I'm happy that it is being restored. I have a similar one for sale in a small town in Southern Alberta. I wanted to restore it, but circumstances and life have changed, and it's time for someone else to take over. At a time we desperately need God in our lives, we seem more determined than ever to throw him out.
 
(quoted from post at 02:38:15 12/12/15) Is that the same Buck Stove Company that makes wood stoves today?
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no. not the same. i think the original buck stove company was bought out by magic chef. magic chef was also connected with quick meal stoves. i worked for another company that occupied the magic chef plant in st louis in the late 60s. yes i'm old.
i found my bucks little gem #28 at a farm sale in berger mo around 1973. it heats my woodshop today.
 
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