Grandma Goldie received the wrought iron bed that resides in this room as a wedding gift from her great-grandma Louise. In 1898, the same year the Hersey House was built, Grandma Goldie moved to the South Dakota Territiory taking her bed on the journey. After her husband died she returned to Minnesota and lived in the St. Cloud area until the age of 89. The bed has been slept in by many of Grandma Goldie’s family, friends and even strangers, including a minister and his wife. The bed is on loan from Grandma Goldie’s granddaughter, Cindy Lupin of Mora. We have named this room in her honor. The dresser was built in 1919 and was found in a used furniture store in Mora in 1968 when I purchased it to use in a cabin on Ann Lake.

This room originally housed a maiden aunt who took the role of nurse for the four Hersey boys, Roscoe, Edward, Dudley and Eugene. Can’t you just see the boys running up the front stairs through the hall and and then down the back stairs...playing "Hide and Seek"? If you listen very carefully, you can still hear them laughing.......

The room has one of two closets in the home. When the house was built, the county tax assessor would tax the homeowner by the number of rooms they had and a closet was counted as a room.