Original Farmstead of France Family, 1899

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Leonard Curtis

Location: This is the original farmstead of Charles Marston France and Rachael Ann Flinn France . This house was located near the SW corner of the NE 1/4 quarter of section 6, Blairsburg Township, Hamilton County, Iowa. People: Rachael Flinn France (1857-1941), Myrtle Jane France (1888-1972), and Charles Marston France (1858-1913). Activity: My grandmother related the story that when the photographer arrived for this photograph, her father was occupied with a task and refused to change into dress clothes for the photograph. She also told me that her father started work on the house around 1882, building the south part first (left in the photo) and then completing the north part (right in the photo) sometime near the year of her birth (1887 or 1888). The house featured a parlor that was only used to entertain guests and an adjacent guest bedroom. The dining room had an exterior door so hired hands were not required to walk through the kitchen when they entered the house for a meal. Tangent to the west side of the kitchen was a pantry with a serving window in the wall between the pantry and the dining room. This house was demolished in the late 1970s.

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