The first floor also houses a kitchen and bathroom, and provides access to a rear addition. The second floor of the house is reached by a flight of stairs along the west wall of the entrance hall. There are three bedrooms and one bathroom. The garage on the north face of the house replaces a summer kitchen, coal room and woodhouse that were destroyed by fire in 1958. Slone has no official caretaker for the Parrish Place, according to the Adair County Assessor's Office.
Someone tends to the landscaping, but no one seems to know whom.
Sparks said he has no idea what Slone, who is nearly 70 years old, plans to do with the house. Bill Murrell, Adair County recorder, said he knew Slone and went to school with her son, George. She wasn't close with anyone in town. Slone could not be reached for comment at her home in Lincoln. The operator said the phone number was out of service or had been disconnected.