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Moving to the Country
Go to Your Room
Chillin' in the 1800s
More Tea, Please
This and That
100
This was the year the Kelton House was built.
What is 1852?
100
This is the reason that although the Kelton's had an out house, all of the bedrooms had a small "bathroom pot"
What is because the out house was about two blocks away?
100
The dining room chairs benefited from this animal's hair cuts
What is a horse?
100
The dining room chairs benefited from this animal's haircuts
What is a horse?
100
The first name of Mr. Kelton
What is Fernando?
200
This was the number of stops allowed by Mr. Kelton when he and his family moved to Ohio.
What is 2?
200
19th century "iHome"
What is a music box?
200
This is what Sophia Kelton preferred to drink in the mornings
What is hot chocolate?
200
This structure was not used by the children or servants
What is the main stairway?
300
For this reason, Sophia Kelton was quite surprised when they first arrived at their new Ohio home
What is because it had not been built yet?
300
The beds had 4 posts for this reason
What is to hang winter "curtains" to keep the heat inside?
300
A daily task by the servants in order to have light in the rooms
What is turning the gas key and lighting for each candle?
300
For this reason, we learned that one of the Kelton boys weighed 50 pounds
What is because Sophia shared that the chandelier could hold a hanging 50lb boy?
300
A woman's dress would not be complete without this animal's bone to make the skirt's hoop
What is a whale?
400
The Kelton family left this city to move to Ohio
What is Boston?
400
Unless you were rich, you did not put a closet in your room for this reason
What is because you had to pay a tax on all "rooms", no matter how big?
400
For this reason, all the windows in the house had lace curtains
What is to stop the bugs during the hot summer temperatures from entering the home?
400
Go-to tea time sandwich
What is a cucumber sandwich?
400
For this reason, families of the 1800s used napkin rings in the dining room
What is so they could identify the napkin's user for that week?
500
For this reason, the Kelton family home did NOT have a secret room for runaway slaves
What is because the Fugitive Slave Law had already passed and building an additional room would look suspicious?
500
Children were independent during these times, but this is one thing they shared with their siblings
What is bathwater? /What is a bath?
500
For this reason, the back of the living room chair had an interesting shape
What is to allow the woman to sit while wearing her hooped dress?
500
For this reason, all dining rooms had red carpet
What is because women felt they looked best in "peach colored lighting" caused from the light shining on the red carpet?
500
This was one way that showed how Mr. Kelton never wasted a perfectly good piece of furniture
What is by re-purposing a bed frame by cutting the wood into decorative pieces above the windows?