It is always 1932 at Wellington Farm, USA in Michigan. The Summer Kitchen is equipped for the housekeeper of the Great Depression, and is a working kitchen for demonstrations and special events. A Grist Mill is nearby milling corn for cornmeal, barley for flour, or shelling corn.
While you’re in Michigan, visit the authentic logging cook shack at the Tahquamenon Logging Museum in Newberry.
Antique Stove display extravaganza — and they’re for sale!
- Bryant Stove & Music, Inc. in Thorndike Maine. Atlantic Stoves, Clarion Stoves, Crawford Stoves, Glenwood Stoves,
Kineo Stoves, and Misc. Stoves
You will find an on-the-farm pork butchering display to the farm family kitchen and more at the Family Farm in Frederick, Maryland! The farm museum recreates the life of a family farm during the late-19th century and early-20th century.

Acadian 1950s kitchen from the Pelletier-Marquis House Museum in St. Agatha, near Canada in upstate Maine
The Albert House in Madawaska, Maine property stayed in the Albert family from when it was granted to them by the King in 1786 until 1970. Now it is a museum and contains this early-1800s country kitchen.
Westwego Historical Society arranged a splendid early kitchen at the Westwego Historical Museum. See the kitchen picture on their website.
You will find 3 kitchen displays and a moonshine still at The McCreary Museum in Kentucky representing different eras. One kitchen represents 1790, another circa 1900, and lastly, a 1920s Miner’s kitchen. Is that a plastic tablecloth in the picture?
Another moonshine still is displayed in Kentucky at Barthell Coal Mining Camp.
Note the kitchen wallpaper at Granny’s house.
Kentucky Fried Chicken’s founder Colonel Sanders first pressure-cooked his famous fried chicken in a 6-seat lunchroom at a gas station. A replica of the kitchen is on display at the original lunchroom location at the Kentucky Fried Chicken® in Corbin Kentucky.
Looks like a Chamber’s stove in the far right photo. What else is at the Monona Historical Museum in Monona, Iowa? If we visit, I’ll let you know pronto! : )

Early Mexican kitchen in the Avila Adobe, Los Angeles, California. Picture taken by Brenard Gagnon. Click picture for details.
Gold Nugget Museum in California displays a living history kitchen from circa 1920s–see their 2nd row-3rd column of pictures.
Would you like to visit an American diner, an early-American tavern, Victorian kitchens and a 1930s kitchen, and much more, all in one building? The Culinary Arts Museum in Providence Rhode Island is amazing–and has it all!
The museum hosts special events such as the Weekend of Fire featuring baking demonstrations in a wood-fired brick oven, tours of a Swiss Military Mobile bread-baking truck and blacksmithing demos of culinary tools. Check their website for events.
Culinary Arts Museum
Strawbery Banke in NH is literally digging up accurate kitchen details of an early 1900s kosher kitchen…read about it on their website…but, really, more pictures! : )
The New York Times describes the reenactment… Worthy of note about the consumption of ice in an icebox:
“I get 50 pounds of ice [for the icebox] for 25 cents every other day…”
More about Ice Boxes…