The beautiful Hersey Suite is where Samuel and Emily Hersey resided after their marriage. Four Hersey sons were born and the adjoining room became their nursery. There was no central heat when the home was first built, rather each room was heated by a small stove. The lady of the house would stand on the sitting room balconey adjoining the master suite and watch over her household. She could stay in her day dress, nurse her baby, and talk to the trades people who came to the front door to sell eggs, meat or other products for the home.

The furniture in this room is made from Minnesota Pine. The tops on the bureau and dressing table are faux marble which could have been mined from the St. Cloud area. The mirror over the radiator was a wedding gift to my parents, Frank and Frances Tauber who were married on June 21, 1932 in Douglas County, Minnesota. The white and green lamp on the dressing table is now converted to electricity and was owned by my grandparents, Mary and Joe Schoenack who immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1906.

The floors upstairs are all original to the house. They are 4” pine boards, no doubt cut right from the forests around the Snake River in Mora. They have been painted numerous times and you will see red, gray, white and now cream.