Miners' Double Dwelling. This house is slightly larger than the laborers' houses at the eastern end of town and may have been occupied by the first class or contract miners. The exterior red and black colors were typical of miners' housing in the region, red being an inexpensive paint pigment.
One half of the house shows furnishings typical of many recent immigrants in mining towns about 1890. The other half of the interior shows the furnishings of an established miner. Each family would have had four rooms - two upstairs and two downstairs. The second floor is not open for visitation.

     A summer kitchen stands behind the house. The summer kitchen was built in order to make the home more comfortable. The stove was moved from the house to the summer kitchen in the spring and back again in the fall. Eventually, the summer kitchen was attached to the house by a breezeway to create more living space.

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