"Puritan" Gas Stove
date: label: date made
content: ca 1894
notes: label: Description
content: Single-burner gas stove and heater featuring a removable, openwork, domed crown with scroll finial; a brass scalloped-edge cap; a vertical, cylindrical shell or casing pierced with two rows of dots and pointed drops near top and one row at base; and a three-foot base decorated with Eastlake- or Art Nouveau-style anthemion and fan motifs incorporating "PURITAN" at front center. Two-pane mica door on front is framed by a plaque with "No 2 / CLEVELAND FDY CO" and "CLEVELAND O." cast in raised letters above and below. Rectangular riveted-on plaque at center below cap reads "PATENTED / JULY 31.94". The threaded connector for the supply valve extends out above the back foot.
label: Description
content: Charles Whittingham of Cleveland, OH, received U.S. Patent No. D23,531 for his "Design for Gas-Heaters" on July 31, 1894. The design depicted in the patent application is for a larger heater, possibly Puritan No. 3; No. 2 appears to be a smaller version. The Cleveland Foundry Company of Cleveland, OH, manufactured heaters and cook-stoves under the "Puritan" brand name.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Waggaman-Brawner Realty Corporation (through William W. Brawner)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.0212C
label: catalog number
content: 60.0212C
label: accession number
content: 226327
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, gas
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 3/8 in x 12 in x 10 1/4 in; 46.6725 cm x 30.48 cm x 26.035 cm